Tuesday, 15 September, 2026
Cloud Offline: Kinetic War Damage Knocks Out Middle East AWS Nodes
By TechShots Studio
Amazon Web Services confirmed it cannot restore access to its Bahrain facility and a UAE cloud hosting zone following war-related damage. The destruction spanned multiple availability zones, exceeding the redundancy limits AWS infrastructure is designed to withstand. As a result, AWS has suspended local billing operations while actively helping affected regional customers migrate their operations to alternative global regions.
Read full story at REUTERS