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Amazon Warns Months To Restore Cloud Operations After Middle East Drone Strikes
Technology
Published on 1 May 2026
Bahrain and UAE outages linked to early March strikes
Amazon Web Services says restoring damaged cloud operations in Bahrain and the UAE will take several months after Iranian drone strikes in early March. The attacks disrupted services, and AWS urged customers to migrate resources and rebuild using backups. The timeline underscores how quickly regional conflict can knock out critical infrastructure and cloud-dependent businesses.
- AWS expects restoration in Bahrain and the UAE to take months
- Early March drone strikes disrupted cloud services
- Customers were advised to migrate and restore from backups
- The incident highlights cloud infrastructure vulnerability in conflicts
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