AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region, me-south-1 is a data center project in Manama, Bahrain, operated by Amazon Web Services. It is on hold. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Latest change on record: moved to on hold on 16 September 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 22 October 2026.
Next gate to watch: Land secured.
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How Bahrain approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Bahrain.
Manama holds 2 active projects with 60 MW of planned IT load between them, and AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region, me-south-1 has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 1 is under construction and 1 is on hold. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Manama, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
AWS has 11 projects elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including AWS Thane (Balkum-Majiwada), AWS CGK Kutanegara (Karawang) and AWS CGK Margamulya (KIIC Karawang). It sits on the AWS me-south-1 campus. Named funding comes from Amazon on the equity side. The named user of the compute is Amazon Web Services (confirmed).
The dated record runs from operational on 30 July 2019 to on hold on 16 September 2026.
Grid power for a large industrial user in Bahrain costs about US$0.095 per kWh as of September 2026, the country figure ArusGrid applies where a site has no published rate. The US export control position for advanced AI chips in Bahrain, as of 27 September 2026, is recorded as “Licence required as enforced (Country Group D:4), no named authorisation found”. ArusGrid holds 7 public sources for this project, the latest dated 17 September 2026, and last checked the record on 22 October 2026.
The announcement stands alone, or the project is on hold. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
No public signal either way.
A chip-vendor partnership or US hyperscaler relationship has been announced, but no government document names anyone involved. Signal, not licence. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.
Licence required as enforced (Country Group D:4), no named authorisation found · Licence required as enforced (Country Group D:4), no named authorisation found (2026-09-27) source
Me-south-1 region, two Amazon-registered buildings, DC52 (Hamala) and DC53 (Askar). Region damaged across multiple AZs, AWS says it cannot restore resources · as of 2026-09-16
Amazon's own PeeringDB facility records (org Amazon.com, Inc., created 2020-03-09, updated 2025-09-26) place its Bahrain buildings in Hamala and Askar with Amazon AS16509 present. DCD quotes AWS that in me-south-1 'damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple availability zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand' and it is unable to restore the region.
Source · PeeringDB facility records: AWS Bahrain DC52 MMR (Hamala) and AWS Bahrain DC53 MMR (Askar), org Amazon.com, Inc. (PeeringDB, 2025-09-26)
Source · AWS "unable to restore access" to data centers hit by Iran strikes (DCD, 2026-09-16)
An own-use build. No colocation price applies.
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