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Amazon’s AWS Bahrain region suffers major outage due to ongoing Middle East conflict

Amazon has confirmed that its cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is currently unavailable in Bahrain after sustaining damage amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

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Thursday, April 30, 2026

Manama: Amazon stated that its AWS infrastructure in Bahrain has been impacted by the escalating regional tensions, leading to a complete disruption of services in the affected zone.

The company also announced that billing operations for customers using the Bahrain region have been temporarily suspended as recovery efforts get underway. Amazon indicated that restoring full functionality could take several months, highlighting the scale of the damage sustained.

AWS is a critical backbone for businesses, governments, and digital platforms across the region, and the outage is expected to have ripple effects on operations that rely on its cloud infrastructure.

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