Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones

Iranian missile strikes by the IRGC have taken down AWS data centers in Bahrain (BAH) and Dubai (DXB), with Amazon declaring multiple availability zones as 'hard down' and others 'impaired but functioning.' An internal AWS memo confirms no timeline for restoration and urges customers to migrate workloads to other regions. The conflict has also threatened Nvidia, Microsoft, and struck an Oracle data center. Beyond immediate service disruptions, the regional war is disrupting the Strait of Hormuz, threatening supplies of aluminum, helium, and LNG critical to the semiconductor supply chain, with recovery potentially taking months or years.