AWS Cannot Restore Data Held Only in Damaged Middle East Availability Zones

Multi-AZ is a durability strategy, not a disaster plan. AWS now says data held exclusively in the me-central-1 mec1-az2 zone can’t be restored, and that damage to the Bahrain region exceeded what its regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand — updates there aren’t expected until early 2027. Cross-region replication has always been the boring recommendation nobody budgets for. This is the bill.