Amazon Web Services has confirmed that Iranian strikes on its Middle East data centers caused permanent loss of some customer data. AWS said one availability zone in the UAE region (mec1-az2) had irretrievably lost resources and data, and that all three availability zones in the Bahrain region were similarly unrecoverable after strikes beginning March 1, with follow-up attacks on April 1 and a July 24 missile strike that satellite imagery confirmed. AWS described the damage as spanning multiple Availability Zones and exceeding the design tolerances of regional and multi-AZ protections. The company suspended customer billing for the affected regions, urged customers to migrate workloads and use remote backups, and issued roughly $150 million in credits after the initial disruptions.
AWS is replacing affected infrastructure and working to recover remaining regional resources, promising further restoration updates in coming months and a longer-term update for Bahrain in early 2027. Most customers reportedly moved workloads to other regions following AWS guidance, but some data losses are permanent. The strikes occurred amid an escalating US-Israeli conflict with Iran that has broadened into a regional crisis affecting shipping and energy flows, a situation that has also accelerated global interest in distributed and renewable power solutions.
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