Amazon has reportedly confirmed service disruptions at its Amazon Web Services (AWS) centers in Dubai and Bahrain following the Iranian attacks. The company said in an internal memo seen by Big Technology that it expected the “hardened” Dubai and Bahrain AWS centers would be “unavailable for an extended period.” According to the memo, staff have been asked to give ‘priority’ to these areas due to the scale of the damage. Amazon said it is working to help affected customers by moving its services to other regions.

What Amazon’s internal memo says about Dubai and Bahrain AWS centers

“Both of these areas remain patchy, and the services should not be expected to operate with normal levels of redundancy and resiliency,” an internal Amazon memo reads, according to the Big Technology report. “We are actively working to free up and reserve as much capacity as possible in the region for customers, and services should be scaled to the minimum footprint necessary to support customer migration.”“The AWS Bahrain region has been disrupted as a result of the ongoing conflict. We are working closely with local authorities and prioritizing the safety of our personnel during our recovery efforts. We continue to support affected customers, helping them migrate to alternative AWS regions, a large number of which are already successfully operating their applications from other parts of the world,” the company said in a blog post published March 24, 2026. “As this situation evolves, and as we have previously advised, we urge people with workloads in affected areas to continue to migrate to other locations.”The US-Israel-Iran war has now entered its sixth week. Amazon’s Bahrain facilities have been hit several times, including a strike earlier this week on April 1 that led to a fire. The company’s facilities in UAE have also suffered setbacks several times. “We do not have a timeline for when DXB and BAH will return to normal operations,” the internal post said.Last month, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened to attack Microsoft, Google and Apple, among several other US tech giants. “Starting at 8:00 p.m. Tehran time (1630 GMT) on Wednesday, April 1, these companies should expect the destruction of their respective units in exchange for every kill in Iran,” the Guards said in a statement.