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Amazon cloud outage in UAE, Bahrain may last months

April 30, 2026·Gulf BusinessEconomy

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GCC CONTEXT

Cloud infrastructure disruptions in the GCC region carry outsized macroeconomic weight given the Gulf's rapid digitalization and reliance on AWS services across financial services, e-commerce, and government systems—sectors that collectively anchor regional GDP growth. Extended outages in strategically important hubs like the UAE and Bahrain historically expose structural dependencies on foreign cloud providers and underscore ongoing regional vulnerabilities in data sovereignty and business continuity planning. Multi-month service disruptions of this scale typically trigger policy discussions around localized cloud capacity, regulatory resilience standards, and the economic cost of service interruptions across interconnected Gulf markets.

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