- Updated: April 3, 2026
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AWS Availability Zones in Dubai and Bahrain Hard Down After Iranian Strikes
Recent Iranian missile strikes have caused a severe outage across Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones in Dubai and Bahrain, leaving them “hard down” according to internal communications. The disruption has prompted AWS to issue an urgent memo urging customers to migrate workloads to unaffected regions to maintain service continuity.
The memo, circulated among AWS customers, highlights the critical nature of the outage and provides step‑by‑step guidance for rapid migration. It also stresses the importance of reviewing disaster‑recovery plans and ensuring redundancy across multiple geographic zones.
For a full read of the original report, visit Big Technology. Additional insights on cloud resilience and best practices can be found on our site: Cloud Resilience Strategies and AWS Outage Response Guide.
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Andrii Bidochko is an AI entrepreneur and researcher focused on AI agents, reinforcement learning, and autonomous systems. He writes about the technologies shaping the future of machine intelligence, from frontier models and agent architectures to real-world AI applications.