AWS cannot restore Bahrain region or one UAE zone six months after strikes

Amazon Web Services told customers it cannot restore access to its Bahrain cloud facility and one of three UAE zones six months after drone strikes. Damage exceeded the region's fault-tolerance limits; about 60 services were down in April.

• Drone strikes damaged two UAE data centers and a Bahrain facility in early March
• About 60 services remained unavailable in the region by late April
• AWS stopped billing and offered customers migration to other regions
• Fate of data in affected zones and recovery timeline undisclosed