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Riot Uses Stopgap Servers as Middle East VALORANT Outage Drags On
An advanced report on the infrastructure failure, the rerouting, and the temporary workaround.
Based on source story: VALORANT enables Riyadh and Mumbai servers for Middle East region amid outages from Dot Esports
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Riot Games has activated Riyadh and Mumbai as VALORANT servers for Middle East players after a prolonged failure the primary Bahrain and Dubai setup. The decision reflects an attempt to stabilize regional play while the underlying infrastructure problem remains unresolved.
According to the report, the outage began in early March after damage to AWS data-center facilities in the UAE, reportedly linked to a fire and safety shutdown. In the meantime, players were to European servers, a shift that produced high latency, packet loss, and unreliable matches. Riot acknowledged the situation on March 10 but did not provide a restoration timetable.
The newly available servers give players a practical Riyadh for much of the Gulf and Mumbai for South Asia and the eastern Middle East. Even so, Riot has framed the change as a temporary continuity measure rather than a strategic replacement. Bahrain and Dubai are still expected to return once the regional infrastructure is fully restored.
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