Iranian military strikes have rendered two Amazon Web Services availability zones completely offline in Dubai and Bahrain, with internal communications warning they will remain unavailable for an extended period. The attacks have damaged AWS infrastructure to the point where employees have been instructed to deprioritize both regions entirely. Internal memos indicate services cannot operate with normal redundancy and resiliency levels.

Amazon's facilities in Bahrain have been hit multiple times, including a Wednesday strike that caused a fire, while UAE locations have sustained multiple hits. The IRGC is now threatening other U.S. tech giants including Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Each region contains three availability zones, with both currently experiencing one "hard down" zone and one "impaired but functioning" zone. Amazon lacks a timeline for when operations will return to normal.

With the conflict now nearing its sixth week, Iran has made AWS infrastructure in the Gulf an economic target. The company is actively working to free up capacity for customer migration to alternate regions, with many customers already successfully operating applications from other parts of the world. Amazon continues advising customers with workloads in affected regions to migrate to other locations as the situation evolves.