Amazon’s cloud unit AWS said on Monday that its data centers in Bahrain and the UAE were facing power and connectivity issues, as per a Reuters report.
The update comes amid the Middle East conflict between the U.S. and Israel on one side and Iran on the other. Gulf countries—Bahrain, U.A.E, and Qatar specifically—were targeted via missile attacks starting on Saturday (28th of February, 2026).
“We are investigating connectivity and power issues affecting APIs and instances in a single Availability Zone (mec1-az2) in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region due to a localized power issue,” said AWS regarding the disruption in the U.A.E.
Amazon-owned data centers are the latest piece of infrastructure disrupted during the Middle East fallout that has already witnessed damage to valuable infrastructure in shipping ports and oil facilities. The company has not confirmed or denied yet whether the disruption was due to the missile attacks by Iran.
Two of Amazon’s clusters in the U.A.E were without power on Monday, said the company, while one of its zones in Bahrain faced localized power issues. Power in the UAE zone was shut off after “objects” hit the data center, creating a fire, which led it to be closed down.
“Other AWS Services may also be experiencing increased errors and latencies for their workflows, and we are working to route requests away from this affected Availability Zone,” AWS said in its operational update for Bahrain.
AWS has said that recovery could be hours away from happening.
According to Amazon’s status page, 6 services have been degraded, 77 services have been impacted, and 9 services have been successfully resolved in the U.A.E. In Bahrain, 44 services have been impacted, while 18 have been resolved.