How to Perform an AWS ME-CENTRAL-1 Recovery: Restoring S3 and DynamoDB after the March 2026 Outage
TL;DR: The unprecedented March 2026 outages in the UAE and Bahrain regions, caused by physical infrastructure damage, have forced a massive shift in disaster recovery protocols. For a successful AWS ME-CENTRAL-1 recovery, engineers must move beyond simple backups and implement a multi-layered approach involving S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) and DynamoDB Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) combined with … Read more