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Amazon Web Services Middle East drone-strike outage

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Amazon Web Services confirmed a drone-strike disruption that damaged infrastructure in its Middle East regions and caused an outage affecting dozens of cloud services. The disruption impacted AWS Middle East (UAE) Region (ME-CENTRAL-1) and AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region (ME-SOUTH-1), with multiple availability zones still impaired. AWS said it is restoring physical infrastructure and advising customers to move workloads and backups to unaffected regions.

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  1. 03.03.2026 13:44 2 articles · 2mo ago

    Amazon Web Services Middle East drone-strike outage

    Initial Disclosure

    AWS first confirmed that **drone strikes** had damaged data center infrastructure in the **UAE** and **Bahrain**, immediately disrupting regional cloud operations. The initial status update identified **multiple impaired availability zones** and an ongoing recovery effort.

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