Overview
- Matt Garman, speaking to CNBC on Tuesday, said AWS teams are working around the clock to keep Middle East infrastructure online and to help customers shift workloads.
- The AWS status page still lists dozens of services as unavailable in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, and the company has not given a timeline for full restoration.
- AWS said drone strikes in early March damaged data centers in Bahrain and the UAE, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard navy later claimed it targeted Amazon infrastructure in Bahrain.
- A reported internal memo, cited by Big Technology, said two availability zones in Dubai and Bahrain are hard down for an extended period, and AWS has advised customers to migrate to other regions.
- Recovery is complicated by data‑residency rules that limit cross‑border failover and by higher energy and helium costs that raise the expense of running large data centers.