Amazon said on Thursday that restoring its cloud computing services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) could take several months after damage caused during the recent Middle East conflict.
The company confirmed that its regional data centres were affected by Iranian retaliatory drone strikes in early March. The incident disrupted cloud operations and has made the recovery process prolonged.
An Amazon spokesperson clarified that the latest update, issued on April 30, relates to the same disruption that occurred in March and is not linked to any new incident.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud provider, serves a wide range of global clients. Its customers include major companies such as Netflix, BMW and Pfizer, along with financial institutions, media organisations and government bodies. AWS is also Amazon’s primary source of profit.
According to an update on its official status page, AWS has advised customers in the UAE to move available resources to other regions and recover inaccessible data using remote backups as soon as possible.
The status page indicated that 37 services in the UAE remained disrupted as of the week of April 30, with some outages continuing since early March.
Amazon also said that due to the extent of the damage, billing operations in the UAE region have been temporarily suspended.
Last month, AWS operations in Bahrain were also disrupted following drone activity in the area, highlighting ongoing risks to infrastructure in the region.
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