The Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported on Tuesday (15) that it will not be able to recover some of the data and resources stored in its infrastructure in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, damaged during attacks linked to the war with Iran.
The loss affects information kept exclusively in the affected facilities, with no copies available in other regions or backups that allow restoration.
In Bahrain, the damage affected several availability zones and exceeded the failure level that AWS's regional architecture was designed to withstand. The company said it had exhausted alternatives for recovering resources still tied to the region.
In the United Arab Emirates, one of the three availability zones, identified as mec1-az2, also had data and resources considered unrecoverable. AWS continues working to recover infrastructure in the other two zones in the region.
Most customers managed to migrate operations
The disruptions began in March, after AWS facilities were hit or damaged during the military escalation in the Middle East.
After the first incidents, the company recommended that customers transfer their workloads to other regions. Most managed to complete the migration, while users with backups were able to restore their operations in other locations.
The cases of permanent loss were concentrated in resources that remained only in the affected infrastructure.
AWS said it is replacing damaged equipment in the Emirates and plans to update the recovery progress in the coming months. In Bahrain, a new update on plans for the region is scheduled for early 2027.
