Amazon’s AWS suffers outages in Bahrain, UAE amid Iranian strikes

Key Highlights

• Power was subsequently cut off as a precaution.
• The company warned customers that full restoration may take “multiple hours” and advised businesses to shift workloads to other regions.
• AWS confirms multiple zones affected According to AWS’s status page, two cloud zones in the UAE remained offline, while a separate area experienced what the company described as “a localized power issue”.
• Some limited recovery earlier in the day was disrupted by further instability.
• The cloud provider did not confirm whether the UAE incidents were directly linked to Iranian strikes but said another zone in Bahrain also suffered power problems.