Amazon Web Services says recovery from drone strikes that hit its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will be measured in months, leaving customers in the region facing prolonged disruption and prompting a broader rethink of investments in Middle East infrastructure. The attacks, part of a wider bout of regional hostilities, knocked core compute racks offline, triggered
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When Drones Hit the Cloud: AWS Middle East Outage Disrupts 109 Services
A series of drone strikes against Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East triggered one of the most significant regional outages in AWS history, disrupting services across the ME-CENTRAL-1 (UAE) region and causing collateral damage in the nearby ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain) region. The incident began in the early hours of March 1, 2026, and left many customers scrambling to fail