Iran Drone Strikes

Amazon confirms permanent data loss after Iranian drone strikes hit AWS centers in UAE, Bahrain

Amazon Web Services disclosed on September 15 that drone strikes attributed to Iran destroyed data center infrastructure in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain so severely that customer data and resources could not be recovered. AWS said the damage crossed multiple availability zones, exceeding the redundancy built into its regional and multi-zone systems, following earlier strikes in March and April that had already caused structural, power and fire-related damage.

futurism.com · 2026-09-17

AWS confirms permanent customer data loss from Iranian strikes on Gulf data centers

Amazon Web Services has confirmed that customer data hosted in its Bahrain and United Arab Emirates regions was permanently lost following Iranian drone strikes on its data centers months earlier. An AWS status update posted September 15 said the company could not restore data in one UAE availability zone and across all three availability zones in Bahrain, though recovery work continues elsewhere.

arstechnica.com · 2026-09-16