<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Several </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/amazon" rel="" target="_blank" title="Amazon "><span>Amazon </span></a><span>Web Services are down in the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/middle-east" rel="" target="_blank" title="Middle East"><span>Middle East</span></a><span> after three data centres were damaged in drone strikes. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The company has issued an alert for disruptions to multiple services in the United Arab Emirates and in Bahrain. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, both affected regions have experienced physical impacts to infrastructure as a result of drone strikes," Amazon Web Services said.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/australian-companies-gender-pay-gap-2026-revealed-qantas-woolworths-coles-commonwealth-bank/24b3adee-e02c-4460-a89e-10c8f1732908" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>The Australian employers where the gender pay gap is widening</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impacts to our infrastructure. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"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."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It has led to error rates in Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS, and the AWS Management Console and CLI services in both regions. </span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/us-israel-attack-iran-updates-amazon-services-down-in-the-middle-east-as-data-centres-damaged/bc6dcb75-8be9-4b87-97b3-8ba05f1cf798" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The issue is not affecting services outside the UAE and Bahrain. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Amazon is working with local authorities to restore full service, but said it expects this to take some time due to the extent of the damage and ongoing strikes in the Middle East. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/us-israel-attack-iran-live-updates-donald-trump-latest-world-news-headlines/95e0f1d7-cdf4-42ad-866d-569779885e71" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Australians in Saudi Arabia told to take shelter</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It is also working to restore services that do not require the data centres to be repaired. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Amazon advised customers with workloads in the Middle East to back up their data and migrate their workloads to alternative regions, like Australia and the wider Asia Pacific, the US or Europe. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Even as we work to restore these facilities, the ongoing conflict in the region means that the broader operating environment in the Middle East remains unpredictable," the company said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Amazon has an estimated 30 per cent of the global cloud market and powers more than four million businesses worldwide. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/us-terror-threat-level-iran-israel-strikes-what-is-it-explained/0ef6e153-f786-4ef2-9aaa-85a0e7d131bb" rel="" target="_blank" title="Iran has issued strikes at US military bases"><span>Iran has issued strikes at US military bases</span></a><span> in the UAE and Bahrain as it retaliates against President Donald Trump's fatal attack on the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei. 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