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Amazon cloud services in Bahrain, UAE disrupted: Al Jazeera

Published: 02 Mar 2026 - 11:44 am | Last Updated: 02 Mar 2026 - 11:56 am
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The Peninsula Online

Doha, Qatar: Amazon’s cloud division says that its data centers in Bahrain and the UAE were experiencing power and connectivity problems, amid Iran’s retaliatory strikes, Al Jazeera reports.

Two of Amazon cloud unit’s zones, which are clusters of ‌data centres, in the UAE were without power, the company said on its status page.

AWS said on Sunday said that one zone in the UAE was affected after “objects” struck the data center and created sparks and fire, following which power ⁠was shut off.

“We can confirm ⁠that a localized power issue has affected another availability zone” in the UAE region, AWS said.