Iranian drones strike Amazon sites in Middle East

Iranian drone strikes damaged three AWS data centres in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting core cloud services (compute, storage, databases) used by retailers, logistics platforms and marketplaces across the Middle East. Amazon has paused billing for affected customers, urged migration to other regions and warned repairs and recovery could take several months. The outages have caused online-ordering, payments and fulfilment interruptions, prompting some firms to move workloads to Europe or Asia and spurring data‑centre developers and tech firms to reassess regional investment and insurance exposure. The incident highlights elevated operational and geopolitical risk for Amazon (AMZN.OQ) and its customers, with potential short‑term revenue/operational impacts for regional clients and longer‑term implications for cloud resilience strategies.