Amazon Web Services has confirmed that Iranian strikes on its Bahrain and United Arab Emirates regions inflicted catastrophic physical damage that permanently destroyed some customer data. An AWS dashboard update on September 15 said one availability zone in the UAE region (mec1-az2) suffered irretrievable loss and that all three availability zones in the Bahrain region were rendered inaccessible. Satellite imagery and multiple strikes - on March 1, a follow-up on April 1, and a July 24 missile attack that struck a remaining structure in Bahrain - corroborated the scope of the damage. AWS acknowledged the harm “spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi‑AZ services are designed to withstand.”
AWS response included immediate advisories to migrate workloads and restore from remote backups, suspension of customer billing for the affected regions, and roughly $150 million in credits issued after the initial strikes. The company is working to replace affected infrastructure, recover regional resources where possible, and restore services in surviving availability zones, with a further update promised in early 2027. The strikes occurred amid a broader US‑Israeli-Iran conflict that began in late February and has since expanded into a regional crisis affecting shipping and energy, a situation that has also accelerated global interest in renewable power.
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