US-Iran War Permanently Damaged Amazon's AWS Infrastructure in the Middle East

Amazon acknowledged that Iranian strikes disabled part of its AWS cloud infrastructure in Bahrain and the UAE. The me-south-1 region in Bahrain is unrecoverable, with customer data permanently lost; in the UAE, the mec1-az2 availability zone was destroyed.

• AWS me-south-1 region in Bahrain deemed unrecoverable
• Availability zone mec1-az2 destroyed in the UAE
• Customers advised to move data to European regions
• UAE outage began in March, some customers have already migrated