GoKawiilAWS Confirms Permanent Data Loss at Bahrain and UAE Facilities After Drone Strikes
Amazon Web Services announced it cannot restore cloud infrastructure in Bahrain and part of the UAE, more than six months after drone strikes tied to the Iran war damaged the sites. AWS said the destruction exceeded what its systems were built to endure, permanently losing data and resources hosted exclusively there, while it continues trying to recover two other affected UAE zones.
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This is one of the clearest examples yet of physical warfare directly destroying cloud infrastructure, a risk long treated as theoretical by tech companies. It raises fresh doubts about the safety of massive AI data center investments planned for the Gulf, including the UAE's Stargate project backed by OpenAI, Nvidia, Oracle and Cisco.
- AWS confirms permanent, unrecoverable data loss at Bahrain and one UAE availability zone.
- Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed the strikes targeted Amazon over its U.S. military ties.
- The incident casts doubt on the UAE's ambitions to become a major global AI infrastructure hub.
Source: cnbc.com — Annie Palmer, 2026-09-15
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