Amazon Cloud Facilities in Middle East Knocked Out by Apparent Iranian Drone Strikes
By Mike Pearl
Published on March 3, 2026.
Amazon's cloud facilities in the Middle East have been hit by apparent Iranian drone strikes, resulting in multiple data centers being temporarily taken offline. The company confirmed that these strikes targeted web infrastructure directly and indirectly, although it did not specify which country was behind this. The issue is more severe than previously reported, affecting three facilities in two countries including the UAE and Bahrain. The outage also affected the AWS Management Console and command line interface. The situation in the region is unpredictable, with suggestions for customers to backup up data, migrate data out of the region, and implement any existing disaster recovery plans.
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