Kamal Ghorui
Amazon has reportedly confirmed service disruption at its Amazon Web Services (AWS) centres in Dubai and Bahrain after Iranian strikes. The company, in an internal memo viewed by Big Technology, said that it expects “hard down” Dubai and Bahrain AWS centres to be “unavailable for an extended period”. As per the memo, employees have been asked to ‘deprioritise’ these regions due to the scale of damage. Amazon said that it is working to help affected customers shift their services to other regions.
What Amazon’s internal memo says about Dubai and Bahrain AWS centres
“These two regions continue to be impaired, and services should not expect to be operating with normal levels of redundancy and resiliency,” Amazon’s internal memo reads as per the Big Technology report. “We are actively working to free and reserve as much capacity as possible in the region for customers, and services should be scaled to the minimal footprint required to support customer migration.”“The AWS Bahrain Region has been disrupted as a result of the ongoing conflict. We are working closely with local authorities and prioritizing the safety of our personnel throughout our recovery efforts. We continue to support affected customers, helping them to migrate to alternate AWS Regions, with a large number already successfully operating their applications from other parts of the world,” the company said in a blog post published March 24, 2026. “As this situation evolves, and as we have advised before, we request those with workloads in the affected regions continue to migrate to other locations.”The US-Israel-Iran war has now entered its sixth week. Amazon’s Bahrain facilities have been hit multiple times, including a strike on April 1 earlier this week that caused a fire. The company’s facilities in the UAE have also sustained multiple hits. “We do not have a timeline for when DXB and BAH will return to normal operations,” the internal post said.Last month, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened to attack multiple other US tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, and Apple. In a statement, the Guards said, “These companies, starting from 8:00 pm (1630 GMT) Tehran time on Wednesday, April 1, should expect the destruction of their relevant units in exchange for every assassination in Iran.”
