Amazon seems to have suffered some losses in the ongoing war between the U.S.-Israel and Iran. The e-retailer’s cloud computing business says drones have hit three of its facilities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain following U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran on the weekend.
U.S.-Israel and Iran have been engaged in outright war ever since the former attacked the latter, leading to the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader.
The incidents occurred on Sunday morning, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) saying at the time that ”objects” had hit a data center in the UAE, creating ”sparks and fire.”
Amazon’s operations in Bahrain
Amazon’s presence in Bahrain in 2026 is mainly through its cloud services and digital payment infrastructure, rather than a full local retail operation.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) established a dedicated Middle East region in Bahrain, providing cloud computing, storage, and related technologies to businesses, government agencies, and developers across the Gulf and wider region. This local AWS branch allows customers in Bahrain to be invoiced locally and benefit from reduced latency and regional data hosting.
In addition, Amazon Payment Services expanded to Bahrain by integrating with the country’s Benefit electronic payments system, enabling local merchants to accept Benefit-network card payments alongside global options. This helps Bahrain’s e-commerce ecosystem grow by simplifying online transactions for businesses and customers.
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For consumer e-commerce, residents in Bahrain can shop through Amazon’s regional sites such as Amazon.ae, which offer delivery to Bahrain addresses and customer support in Arabic and English.
The company said the drones caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to infrastructure, ”and in some cases, required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage.”
The reported damage to Amazon’s regional cloud infrastructure highlights how modern conflicts increasingly extend beyond traditional military targets into the digital backbone of global commerce. Data centers, payment networks and cloud platforms are now critical infrastructure, underpinning everything from banking and logistics to government services and small business operations. When these systems are disrupted, the effects can ripple far beyond the immediate area of impact.
For multinational technology companies, operating in geopolitically sensitive regions requires balancing growth opportunities with heightened security and contingency planning. Physical hardening of facilities, diversified infrastructure across multiple regions, and rapid failover capabilities become essential components of resilience. Incidents of this nature may also prompt insurers, regulators and corporate risk managers to reassess exposure in high-risk zones, potentially increasing operational costs or accelerating infrastructure redistribution.
The durability of digital ecosystems will depend on redundancy, international coordination and the ability of technology providers to maintain trust under pressure. Stability, both physical and political, remains fundamental to sustaining the seamless connectivity that today’s global economy depends upon.