AWS Says Drones Damaged Three Gulf Data Centers, Leaving Services Disrupted

Overview

• Amazon Web Services reported two facilities in the United Arab Emirates were hit directly and a Bahrain site was damaged by a nearby drone strike.
• Two of the region’s three AWS hubs remain significantly compromised with structural damage, power interruptions, and water damage from firefighting.
• AWS says full restoration will take many hours and is advising customers to back up data, shift workloads to unaffected regions, and expect elevated error rates.
• The incidents occurred during widespread Iranian missile and drone attacks reported by Emirati authorities, though AWS has not confirmed any direct linkage.
• Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank disclosed technical issues affecting some platforms and its mobile app without attributing the outage, and AWS cautioned that the regional operating environment remains unpredictable.