Amazon caught with months of repairs after drone strikes on knowledge facilities

Amazon’s cloud clients might want to wait a number of extra months earlier than the US tech firm can restore war-damaged knowledge facilities and restore regular operations within the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after Iranian drone strikes focused three Amazon knowledge facilities within the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain—which means that full restoration from the cloud disruption might take almost half a 12 months in all.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) dashboard posted an April 30 replace describing how its UAE and Bahrain cloud areas “suffered damage as a result of the conflict in the Middle East” and are unable to help buyer purposes. The replace additionally stated that “relevant billing operations are currently suspended while we restore normal operations” in a course of that “is expected to take several months.”

That wording suggests Amazon will proceed to keep away from billing AWS clients within the affected areas—ME-CENTRAL-1 and ME-SOUTH-1—after it initially waived all usage-related costs for March 2026 at an estimated cost of $150 million.

AWS additionally “strongly” beneficial that clients migrate assets to different cloud areas and depend on distant backups to revive any “inaccessible resources.” Some clients, such because the Dubai-based tremendous app Careem—which affords ride-hailing, family providers, and meals and grocery supply—have been capable of get again on-line shortly after doing an overnight migration to different knowledge middle servers.