Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones “hard down” in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be “unavailable for an extended period”

Amazon tells its employees to deprioritize these regions as the Iran war deals meaningful damage to its infrastructure in the Gulf.

Big Technology 2026-04-04 Alex Kantrowitz

@edkrassen Ed Krassenstein on x
Breaking: Iranian strike damages Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure in Bahrain. Bahrain's Interior Ministry confirms a fire at a company facility (linked to telecom operator Batelco hosting AWS). Amazon has not yet commented.
@cloudflareradar @cloudflareradar on x
The @AWS region in #Bahrain appears to be offline after being damaged again in another Iranian strike. Traffic to me-south-1 disappeared around 01:00 UTC on April 1, with connection failures increasing significantly. https://radar.cloudflare.com/ ... https://www.reuters.com/... …
@migueldeicaza Miguel de Icaza on x
Iran is snubbing Azure.
@adamscochran Adam Cochran on x
When the AWS data center in Bahrain was hit earlier in the conflict, US sources suggested it would be “under repair” Amazon has now instead removed any mention of the data center from its documentation, suggesting the damage was extensive and that the site will not be operational…
@astuyve AJ Stuyvenberg on x
AWS has officially removed all EC2 instances in Bahrain from their docs. I don't think it's coming back anytime soon: [image]
@wowbaggert @wowbaggert on bluesky
“Hard Down” - here for this ghost written Tom Clancy branded airport read

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