Three Amazon data centers were damaged by Iranian drone strikes in the Middle East.

On Sunday, the company announced outages at its ME-CENTRAL-1 cloud region due to "objects" striking a facility. The company has now confirmed that two data centers in the UAE were directly struck by drones, and a third site in Bahrain was impacted by a "drone strike in close proximity" that damaged the facility.

Amazon Web Services said: "These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage.

"We are working closely with local authorities and prioritizing the safety of our personnel throughout our recovery efforts."

Two of the company's three Availability Zones (mec1-az2 and mec1-az3) remain significantly impaired, while the third Availability Zone (mec1-az1) continues to operate normally. Some az1 services that were dependent on the other zones are impacted.

In the ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain) Region, one facility has been impacted. "Across both regions, customers are experiencing elevated error rates and degraded availability for services including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS, and the AWS Management Console and CLI," Amazon said.

The company warned that it expects recovery "to be prolonged given the nature of the physical damage involved."

The AZ issues have impacted delivery and taxi platform Careem, payments companies Alaan and Hubpay, bBanking providers ADCB and Emirates NBD, software companies like Snowflake, and others.

With attacks still ongoing in the Middle East, Amazon recommended that customers backup data and consider migrating workloads to alternate AWS Regions.

Iran has continued to expand its retaliatory attacks on the Gulf region, following US-Israeli strikes on the country this past weekend.

Oil and gas sites have been targeted, along with airports, and other critical infrastructure.