Amazon suggests that restoring AWS in the Middle East could take several months.

In retaliation for attacks by the United States and Israel, Iran launched attacks on U.S.-related facilities in various Middle Eastern countries. Amazon's facilities were no exception, and its data centers are currently completely shut down. It has now been reported that Amazon has stated that 'restoration is expected to take several months.'

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Amazon says restoring damaged Middle East cloud operations to take months | Reuters
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Amazon operates three data centers in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, but two of them , ME-CENTRAL-1 (UAE) and ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain), were attacked by drones and shut down . Amazon began recovery efforts and notified affected customers that they would be exempted from charges and encouraged them to use other data centers.

Iranian attack puts AWS Dubai and Bahrain regions 'completely down,' Amazon predicts they will be unavailable for an extended period - GIGAZINE

Amazon updated its information on April 30, 2026, stating that recovery is expected to take several months. Regarding the UAE and Bahrain regions, Amazon wrote: 'These regions are affected by the Middle East conflict and we are unable to provide stable support for your applications. While some workloads continue to function normally, we strongly recommend migrating all accessible resources to other regions and restoring inaccessible resources from remote backups as soon as possible. Related billing processes are currently suspended while we work to restore normal operations in these AWS regions.'

Amazon's cloud computing service, 'Amazon Web Services,' is the world's largest cloud computing provider and also Amazon's most profitable division.

Iran's military organization, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has declared that 'if the United States and Israel continue their attacks on the Iranian leadership, we will target American high-tech and defense companies operating in the Middle East,' and it is reported that they have actually been carrying out attacks since the following day.

Iran announced it will target one American company for each assassination in the Middle East region starting April 1st, including Apple, Google, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA - GIGAZINE