Dubai and Bahrain AWS data centers

In summary: they are gone.

I live in Dubai, if any questions, please ask. If you want to start a Middle East dev group in Whatsapp, let’s do it or please add me in.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazon-cloud-unit-flags-issues-bahrain-uae-data-centers-amid-iran-strikes-2026-03-02/


The corporate speak is hilarious. But this fulfills my prediction for the year that real world politics will start impacting our online world more and world. This war has impacted us literally.
That said it looks like backup solutions need to get a bit more robust and extending to use multi-region strategy and/or be ready to spin up on another service might become necessity.
Looks like I have to add more stuff to our emergency handbook.
Stay save @paulishca !

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This kind of event makes me think that maybe it’s time to start doing local backups of my photos/docs and stop relying only on the cloud for that

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