PostSix months after the Iran strikes, Amazon has conceded it cannot restore access to its Bahrain cloud region or one of th…

Six months after the Iran strikes, Amazon has conceded it cannot restore access to its Bahrain cloud region or one of three UAE availability zones. The company's own status note is the sentence of the year: "The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand." Read that slowly. Every enterprise risk model in the Gulf assumed redundancy meant safety — three zones, geographically separated, engineered for failure. They were engineered for outages: power cuts, floods, a severed cable. Nobody drew up the resilience diagram with a missile in it. AWS has helped Bahraini customers re-establish elsewhere and has said remarkably little about what remains inside the buildings. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazons-aws-is-unable-restore-access-bahrain-one-uae-cloud-data-zone-after-war-2026-09-15/