Amazon Web Services said restoration of its Bahrain cloud region and one of three availability zones in the United Arab Emirates is no longer feasible after Iranian military operations damaged the facilities in March 2026. AWS said the Bahrain incident simultaneously affected multiple availability zones, exceeding the resilience limits of its regional and multi-AZ architecture. Most customers moved workloads to other regions or recovered operations from backups, but data that remained solely in Bahrain when the region went offline is permanently inaccessible. AWS said one UAE zone, mec1-az2, cannot be restored while work continues on the wider UAE infrastructure, with a detailed update due in the coming months. Further Bahrain information is expected in early 2027. The outage has intensified scrutiny of Amazon's Middle East cloud resilience and the UAE's plans for large-scale AI infrastructure.