Amazon.com IncAWS cannot recover customer data and resources in its Bahrain and UAE cloud regions after drone strikes damaged infrastructure across multiple availability zones.

Amazon Web Services has told customers it cannot recover data and resources hosted solely in its Bahrain cloud region, following damage caused by Iranian drone strikes more than six months ago. The company said the impact extended across multiple availability zones, the separate groups of data centers within a single region, and that the scale of the damage exceeded the resiliency measures built into its regional infrastructure. In a separate update, AWS said it is also unable to restore data and resources hosted exclusively in one affected availability zone in the United Arab Emirates, and that replacement infrastructure is being deployed with additional updates expected in the coming months. AWS added that affected customers have largely shifted workloads to other regions and relied on backups where available, and said it remains committed to supporting customers in Bahrain over the long term with another update expected early next year. Amazon has not disclosed a financial impact from the incident.
Amazon.com IncAWS cannot recover customer data and resources in its Bahrain and UAE cloud regions after drone strikes damaged infrastructure across multiple availability zones.