By Megan Cerullo
Updated March 3, 2026 / 10:14 AM EST / CBS News
Amazon says drone strikes hit three of its data centers in the Middle East, leading to outages linked to the region’s ongoing conflict. According to the company’s AWS health dashboard, two Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates were directly struck, and a nearby drone attack in Bahrain also damaged an Amazon data center.
“These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage,” AWS said. The company added that operations across the Middle East remain “significantly impaired,” with customers seeing higher error rates and reduced availability for affected services.
Amazon said teams are working to repair physical damage and restore services but warned that conditions in the region remain unpredictable. It advised customers in the area to back up their data and consider moving workloads to servers in other regions while recovery continues.
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