Iranian drone strikes damage AWS Middle East data centers and require months of repairs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) faces months of repairs to war-damaged data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain following Iranian drone strikes, leaving cloud customers in the Middle East without full service restoration for potentially half a year. The company has halted billing for affected users while urging them to migrate workloads to other regions, as reported by Ars Technica and echoed on Slashdot.