Amazon Web Services remains unable to restore access to some customer data hosted in data centers in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates after Iranian drone and missile strikes in early March 2026. AWS said Tuesday that facilities in both locations have been mostly offline since the opening days of the U.S. war against the Islamic Republic, with damage in Bahrain spread across multiple facilities. The Bahrain region, ME-SOUTH-1, and one of three Availability Zones in the UAE region, ME-CENTRAL-1, remain unable to resume full operations more than six months after the attacks. Structural damage, power failures and water damage from fire-suppression systems affected multiple facilities, exceeding the localized-failure assumptions behind AWS’s multi-Availability Zone design. AWS has advised customers to migrate workloads to other regions and recover data from remote backups, while suspending billing in some updates. The prolonged disruption has created data-residency, cost and operational challenges for Gulf governments, financial institutions and other regulated customers. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure operate in the Middle East and have not reported comparable disruptions.