AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on
20 hours ago
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- Amazon's data centers in UAE and Bahrain were damaged by Iranian drone strikes, causing extended service disruption.
- Repairs and restoration of normal operations are expected to take several months, delaying cloud recovery for customers.
- AWS has suspended billing for affected regions and waived usage charges for March 2026, costing an estimated $150 million.
- Customers are advised to migrate resources to other cloud regions and use remote backups to restore inaccessible data.
- Some customers, like Dubai's Careem, successfully migrated overnight to other servers to resume operations quickly.