Overview
- Amazon, which confirmed the issue Monday, said drone activity near its Bahrain sites disrupted the cloud region and it is moving customers to other AWS regions.
- Company statements shared with reporters say teams are working with Bahraini authorities and keeping staff safe during recovery, without a damage assessment or a restoration timeline.
- Earlier in March, drones struck two AWS facilities in the UAE and a blast near a Bahrain site, causing structural damage, power loss, and water from fire‑suppression systems.
- Those earlier outages rippled across the Gulf, disrupting some consumer apps and banks, and customers were told to back up data and run systems in unaffected regions.
- The repeat disruptions expose how conflict can reach commercial cloud hubs, sharpening calls to harden data centers and to sort out legal limits on rapid cross‑border failover.