Amazon’s cloud customers will have to wait a few more months before the US tech company repairs its war-damaged data centers and resumes normal operations in the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after Iranian drones targeted three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — meaning it could take nearly half a year for the cloud breach to fully recover in total.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) dashboard It published an April 30 update explaining how its cloud regions in the UAE and Bahrain were “damaged by the conflict in the Middle East” and were unable to support customer applications. The update also said that “relevant settlement operations are currently suspended while we resume normal operations” in a process expected to “take several months.”
This statement indicates that Amazon will continue to refrain from paying AWS customers in the affected regions – ME-CENTRAL-1 and ME-SOUTH-1. he refused at first All usage charges for March 2026 estimated value $150 mln.
AWS also “strongly” advised customers to move resources to other cloud regions and rely on remote backups to restore any “unavailable resources.” Some customers of Dubai-based super app Careem, which offers travel, home services, food and grocery delivery, were able to go online quickly after making a single transaction. nocturnal migration to other data center servers.
