Iranian attacks have brought AWS's Dubai and Bahrain regions 'completely down,' and Amazon expects them to be unavailable for an extended period.
It has been reported that attacks by Iran have brought Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and Bahrain to a complete shutdown. Amazon has stated that the services are 'expected to be unavailable for an extended period.'
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According to information shared within Amazon and confirmed by overseas media outlet Big Technology, AWS data centers in Dubai and Bahrain have been attacked, and the damage is so extensive that instructions have been issued to lower the priority of both regions. An internal memo reportedly stated, 'These two regions remain down, and services should not be expected to operate at normal levels of redundancy and resilience.'
Amazon's infrastructure in Bahrain and Dubai each has three ' availability zones .' According to an internal memo, one zone in each region is 'completely down,' and another is 'functioning but experiencing problems.'
Cloudflare's monitoring system confirms that ME-CENTRAL-1 (United Arab Emirates) and ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain) are down.
Iran's military organization, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has reportedly attacked an AWS data center in Bahrain and an Oracle data center in Dubai.
The United Arab Emirates denied the attack. Bahrain, on the other hand, reported that 'an Iranian attack caused a fire at a company's facility.'
Amazon subsequently sent an email to its customers stating, 'We will waive all usage fees in the ME-CENTRAL-1 region for March 2026. This waiver will be automatically applied to your account and requires no action from you.'
Additionally, Amazon has removed Bahrain from its 'Amazon EC2 Instance Types by Region' document . According to archives , it was listed there as of March.
When asked for comment, an Amazon spokesperson said, 'We continue to support affected customers and help them migrate to alternative AWS regions. Many customers are already running their applications successfully from other parts of the world. As the situation develops, we encourage those running workloads in the affected regions to continue migrating to other locations.'
Iran has specifically named private companies and threatened attacks as retaliation against the United States.
Iran announced it will target one American company for each assassination in the Middle East region starting April 1st, including Apple, Google, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA - GIGAZINE
Furthermore, the internet has been shut down in Iran for 37 consecutive days, reportedly the longest nationwide internet shutdown in history.
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