--- title: AWS cannot restore its Bahrain region or one UAE zone... description: Six months after drone strikes hit Amazon's data centre sites in Bahrain and the UAE in early March, AWS says it still cannot restore access to its Bahrain... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/aws-cannot-restore-its-bahrain-region-or-one-uae-zone-six-months-after-the-strikes-xvfsapyvw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AWS cannot restore its Bahrain region or one UAE zone six months after the strikes | daily.dev og:description: Six months after drone strikes hit Amazon's data centre sites in Bahrain and the UAE in early March, AWS says it still cannot restore access to its Bahrain... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/aws-cannot-restore-its-bahrain-region-or-one-uae-zone-six-months-after-the-strikes-xvfsapyvw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XvFsapyvw.png og:image:alt: AWS cannot restore its Bahrain region or one UAE zone six months after the strikes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AWS cannot restore its Bahrain region or one UAE zone six months after the strikes **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Six months after drone strikes hit Amazon's data centre sites in Bahrain and the UAE in early March, AWS says it still cannot restore access to its Bahrain region or one of the three UAE Availability Zones. Amazon states the physical damage spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what its regional and multi-AZ redundancy design was built to withstand. Around 60 services in the region were down by end of April, and Amazon has since urged customers to migrate to other regions and rebuild from off-site backups while it stopped billing for the affected regions. It remains unclear whether customer data in the damaged zones is permanently lost, whether the buildings will be repaired or replaced, or when restoration might happen. This raises questions about how much resilience multi-AZ cloud architecture actually provides when an entire region sustains coordinated physical damage, and adds to broader doubts about the Gulf's viability as a hub for AI data centre investment. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why can't AWS restore its Bahrain region and one UAE Availability Zone after the drone strikes? AWS says the physical damage spanned multiple Availability Zones within the same region and exceeded what its regional and multi-AZ redundancy design was built to withstand. Two UAE data centres were hit directly and the Bahrain site was damaged by nearby strikes in early March, causing structural damage, power delivery problems, and water damage from fire suppression systems. _Teams weighing multi-region resilience trade-offs can follow ongoing cloud infrastructure coverage on daily.dev._ ### What should I do if my AWS resources are stuck in the affected Bahrain or UAE region? AWS has advised customers to migrate all accessible resources to other regions and rebuild remaining systems from off-site backups. It stopped billing for the affected Bahrain and UAE regions and, six months on, says it has helped Bahrain customers relocate operations, though the affected region itself remains unrestored and data recoverability is still unconfirmed. _Engineers rebuilding after a regional cloud outage can track similar incident writeups on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [War in Iran Damages Multiple AWS Data Centers, Challenging Multi-AZ Assumptions](https://daily.dev/posts/war-in-iran-damages-multiple-aws-data-centers-challenging-multi-az-assumptions-wx7xfchku) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-cannot-restore-its-bahrain-region-or-one-uae-zone-six-months-after-the-strikes-xvfsapyvw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"AWS cannot restore its Bahrain region or one UAE zone six months after the strikes","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/aws-cannot-restore-its-bahrain-region-or-one-uae-zone-six-months-after-the-strikes-xvfsapyvw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/aws-cannot-restore-its-bahrain-region-or-one-uae-zone-six-months-after-the-strikes-xvfsapyvw"},"datePublished":"2026-09-15T14:37:47.427Z","dateModified":"2026-09-15T14:38:09.321Z","description":"Six months after drone strikes hit Amazon's data centre sites in Bahrain and the UAE in early March, AWS says it still cannot restore access to its Bahrain...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/978a355e07dadbf134734d94f9a1c967?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/978a355e07dadbf134734d94f9a1c967?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/aws-cannot-restore-its-bahrain-region-or-one-uae-zone-six-months-after-the-strikes-xvfsapyvw","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"cloud,aws","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"AWS cannot restore its Bahrain region or one UAE zone six months after the strikes"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/aws-cannot-restore-its-bahrain-region-or-one-uae-zone-six-months-after-the-strikes-xvfsapyvw#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Why can't AWS restore its Bahrain region and one UAE Availability Zone after the drone strikes?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"AWS says the physical damage spanned multiple Availability Zones within the same region and exceeded what its regional and multi-AZ redundancy design was built to withstand. 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