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AWS said it was helping Bahrain-based customers to re-establish operations in other regions.In the UAE, AWS said it was unable to restore access to resources and data hosted exclusively in one availability zone, known as mec1-az2.
It is continuing to work on recovering resources across the wider UAE region and in the other two affected zones.Also Read: OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are working to create an AI standards bodyThe disruptions began in March following US and Israeli attacks on Iran, which prompted Tehran to retaliate with missile and drone strikes on Israel and Gulf states hosting US military bases.AWS said at the time that two of….
The AWS outages affected some banking operations at the time, Reuters has reported, citing a person familiar with the situation.The attacks have raised questions about the resilience of the Gulf's rapidly expanding cloud and artificial-intelligence infrastructure.
The UAE is revising plans for a major AI data-centre project following the Iranian attacks, including by considering dispersing facilities and using underground and blast-resistant infrastructure, Reuters reported last week.After the first availability zone in Bahrain was damaged in March, AWS began recommending that customers migrate their workloads to other regions, it said in Tuesday's update.
Most did so before the Bahrain region became unavailable following disruption to a second availability zone in April.AWS said it had since supported customers in re-establishing operations in alternative regions, using backups where available or implementing alternative solutions to mitigate the impact of inaccessible data.The company said it had assessed all affected infrastructure and exhausted every option for restoring data and resources that had not been migrated before the Bahrain….
It also said it would provide a further update in early 2027 for Bahrain operations.The company said it had notified the relevant authorities in both countries and continued to work with them.
Says damage exceeded what regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand.
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