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Amazon's AWS is unable to restore access to Bahrain, one UAE cloud data zone after war damage
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Fusion42 · 15 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
Amazon Web Services is unable to restore access to cloud data centers in Bahrain and one UAE zone due to war damage from missile and drone strikes linked to the Iran conflict, affecting regional cloud infrastructure and prompting customer data migration.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cloud Infrastructure, and 3 sources have reported it.
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The Gulf conflict is reshaping cloud operations, with AWS's Bahrain and UAE data zones offline and customers forced to migrate workloads elsewhere. If you depend on Gulf cloud services, you now face a critical need to build redundancy outside the region before your data goes dark.
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3 sources · 15 Sep 2026
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