Amazon's AWS is unable to restore access to Bahrain, one UAE cloud data zone after war damage

After the first availability zone in Bahrain was damaged in March, AWS began recommending that customers migrate their workloads to other regions, it said in Tuesday's update. Most did so before the Bahrain region became unavailable following disruption to a second availability zone in April.

AWS said it had since supported customers in re-establishing operations in alternative regions, using backups where available or implementing alternative solutions to mitigate the impact of inaccessible data.

The company said it had assessed all affected infrastructure and exhausted every option for restoring data and resources that had not been migrated before the Bahrain region became unavailable.

AWS said it remained committed to supporting customers in both countries.

In the UAE, the company said it was working to replace affected infrastructure and would provide an update on restoration of services in the coming months. It also said it would provide a further update in early 2027 for Bahrain operations.