Amazon still had months to repair after drone strikes on data

Amazon’s cloud customers will have to wait several months before the US tech company can repair war-torn sites and restore operations in the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after an Iranian drone strike targeted three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain—meaning full recovery from the cloud damage could take nearly half a year.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) dashboard posted an update on April 30 detailing how its UAE and Bahrain cloud centers were “damaged by conflict in the Middle East” and were unable to support customers. The update also said that “payment services are temporarily suspended while we restore functionality” in a process that is “expected to take several months.”

The statement indicates that Amazon will continue to prevent refunds for AWS customers in the affected regions, ME-CENTRAL-1 and ME-SOUTH-1 – after that. he was initially dismissed All prices related to the use of March 2026 at estimated value $150 million.

AWS also “strongly” recommended that customers migrate to other cloud environments and rely on remote backups to restore “inaccessible data.” Some customers, such as Dubai-based luxury app Careem, which offers ride-hailing, domestic services, and food and grocery services – were able to get back online quickly after they did. nocturnal migration to other central data servers.