AWS Cloud Outage Disrupts Apps and Services Worldwide
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud provider, faced a major cloud outage to disrupted a range of online applications, digital services and customer infrastructure, according to reports.
The company has confirmed power and connectivity issues at key data centres, including in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, amid broader regional tensions.
The outage began Sunday afternoon local time when unidentified objects struck an AWS data centre in the UAE, triggering sparks and a fire.Zong 4G Opens Cloud Computing Center in Islamabad
Fire authorities cut power to the facility while AWS rerouted traffic and worked to restore systems. Connectivity to the affected availability zone — one of several data centre groupings that provide cloud services — was lost, resulting in service interruptions for customers.
AWS said it did not have an estimated time for full power restoration at the impacted site. Other zones in the UAE region continued operating, and AWS advised users to shift workloads to alternative regions where possible while recovery efforts continue.
The disruptions also extended to another availability zone in Bahrain, where AWS reported a localized power issue. Combined, these problems caused **major outages for cloud-dependent applications and services, leading to errors, latency and temporary loss of connectivity for users.
Although AWS did not explicitly tie the outage to the wider Middle East conflict, the UAE incident occurred on the same day Iranian projectiles struck parts of the country as part of retaliation for military actions in the region. Some of the damage to infrastructure — including the AWS data centre — may be linked to fall-out from those strikes.
AWS provides core cloud infrastructure to governments, companies and digital platforms around the world. Outages in its network can ripple through the internet, affecting everything from mobile apps and gaming platforms to enterprise systems and web services. A previous large outage in October 2025 saw dozens of major platforms including social media apps, banking services and streaming sites go offline when AWS infrastructure in the United States failed.
Customers relying on AWS services such as computing, storage and database hosting reported disruptions as the company worked to contain and fix the ongoing issues. AWS engineers are monitoring the situation and updating the AWS Health Dashboard with the latest status and recovery information.