Amazon Web Services has confirmed the permanent loss of some customer data hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, six months after Iranian drone strikes damaged multiple data centres in the region. The admission, made in an AWS dashboard update on 15 September and first reported by Reuters, indicates that the March strikes caused far more severe damage than initially apparent, with the destruction exceeding the resilience AWS's regional and multi-availability-zone systems are built to withstand.

Data was irretrievably lost in one of three UAE availability zones (mec1-az2), while all three availability zones in Bahrain suffered unrecoverable loss of resources and data. The strikes began on 1 March, in the opening days of a war triggered by US-Israeli attacks on Iran on 28 February, prompting AWS to urge customers to migrate workloads and issue roughly $150 million in customer credits. Bahrain's data centres were struck again on 1 April and then targeted by Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps missiles on 24 July, damage later confirmed by satellite imagery; AWS says it is still working to replace affected infrastructure and will provide a further update in early 2027.