Overview
- Amazon Web Services confirmed two facilities in the United Arab Emirates were directly struck by drones and a Bahrain site was damaged by a nearby strike, causing structural damage, power loss, fires and water damage.
- Core services including EC2, S3 and DynamoDB experienced elevated error rates and outages in the region, and AWS reports only partial restoration with affected sites still offline or degraded.
- AWS strongly recommends Middle East customers enact disaster‑recovery plans, restore from remote backups and shift workloads to regions in the United States, Europe or Asia Pacific, with targeted updates delivered via the Personal Health Dashboard.
- Snowflake, Red Hat and EMQX reported degraded performance for regional customers and urged immediate failover, with some deployments running temporarily in single‑AZ mode and no firm timeline for full recovery.
- Iran’s Fars News Agency said the Bahrain strike aimed to probe data centers’ roles in supporting U.S. military and intelligence activities, as experts warn facilities have become strategic targets and investors weigh higher hardening and redundancy costs; Amazon shares fell in early trading after the attacks.