Drone strikes knock out AWS UAE and Bahrain regions
Two of three UAE availability zones were damaged during the US–Iran conflict. AWS later told customers to move out and said some data could not be recovered.
- Service
- AWS Middle East (UAE, Bahrain)
- Date
- 1 March 2026
- Cause
- Physical damage / conflict
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- post-mortem
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- W.Media ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Drone strikes knock out AWS UAE and Bahrain regions”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 1 Mar 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-03-01-aws-middle-east-uae-bahrain-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: W.Media, https://w.media/aws-cant-recover-resources-and-data-stored-in-uae-region-hit-during-us-iran-conflict/.
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