Middle East (Gulf) game servers and ping test

Middle East (Gulf) at a glance

Cities the publishers give: Bahrain, Dubai, Fujairah
Data center countries: Bahrain, United Arab Emirates
Test point: UAE
Games that name it: 10 of 28, 8 by its own name or city
From our server in Germany: 121 ms, Playable (data center, median run)
Region record checked: October 15, 2026

Games that name Middle East (Gulf)

8 games name Middle East (Gulf) by their own label or city. 2 more games list an area that the test reads on this region alone, without a city.

Games whose server lists name Middle East (Gulf), with the label and city each publisher gives
Game	Name in the game	City	How our test reads it
Delta Force	Not published	Not published	This region, by the country Level Infinite gives
Dota 2	Not published	Dubai	This region, by its own name or city
EA SPORTS FC 26	Not published	Dammam	This region, by its own name or city
EA SPORTS FC 26	Not published	Dubai	This region, by its own name or city
EA SPORTS FC 26	Not published	Manama	This region, by its own name or city
Garena Free Fire	Not published	Not published	Middle East (our name), read on this region's test point, city not published
League of Legends	Not published	Not published	This region
Marvel Rivals	Not published	Dammam	This region, by its own name or city
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition	Not published	Not published	This region, by the country Mojang Studios gives
Rainbow Six Siege	United Arab Emirates North	Not published	United Arab Emirates North, read on this region's test point, city not published
Rocket League	Middle East	Not published	This region, by its own name or city
VALORANT	Bahrain	Not published	This region, by its own name or city

Cities the publishers give for Middle East (Gulf)

5 cities in all. 3 of them appear in at least one game's own server list; the rest come from the region's sources below.

Cities for Middle East (Gulf) and the games whose lists name each one
City	Named in these game lists
Dammam	EA SPORTS FC 26 and Marvel Rivals
Dubai	Dota 2 and EA SPORTS FC 26
Manama	EA SPORTS FC 26
Bahrain	None on this site; named in the region sources
Fujairah	None on this site; named in the region sources

The Middle East (Gulf) test point

UAE: Amazon Web Services region Middle East (UAE). The test sends small HTTPS requests to dynamodb.me-central-1.amazonaws.com and times each answer.

UAE stands in for Bahrain, so a figure here is a close guide to those cities, not their own.

A damaged region

AWS reports its UAE region as damaged and its Bahrain region as out of service, so the Gulf test point may answer slowly or not at all. Treat Gulf figures with care.

Terms: Amazon's Acceptable Use Policy, read October 15, 2026. How the test uses every test point is on the method page, and the full list is on the data page.

Middle East (Gulf) from our server in Germany

Our own server in a German data center timed this test point every 30 minutes from October 15, 2026 to October 18, 2026, 91 runs with command line requests. The median run read 121 ms to UAE: Playable on our bands. That is one data center line in Germany, not a home line, and your verdict never uses it. Another network in the same country can read a region tens of milliseconds faster or slower.

Reference times to Middle East (Gulf) from a data center in Germany, October 15, 2026 to October 18, 2026
Test point	Median run	Middle half of runs	Slowest run	Typical spread	Runs
UAE	121 ms	120 ms to 122 ms	125 ms	0.2 ms	91

Middle East (Gulf) from your own line

The figures above are from a data center. Run the test with Middle East (Gulf) picked as the region you play on, and the result reads your line to it next to every other region.

Test your ping to Middle East (Gulf)

Middle East (Gulf) questions

Which games have servers in Middle East (Gulf)?

Delta Force, Dota 2, EA SPORTS FC 26, League of Legends, Marvel Rivals, Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, Rocket League and VALORANT name Middle East (Gulf) in their own server lists. Garena Free Fire and Rainbow Six Siege list an area that includes it, without a city.

Where is the Middle East (Gulf) test point?

In the Amazon Web Services region Middle East (UAE). UAE stands in for Bahrain. It is not a game server: the test times it because it sits near the servers the publishers name.

What does our server in Germany read to Middle East (Gulf)?

From our server in a German data center, the median of 91 runs to UAE was 121 ms, Playable on our bands, with half the runs between 120 ms and 122 ms. That is one data center line: another network can read Middle East (Gulf) tens of milliseconds faster or slower, and a home line adds its own delay, so run the test for your figure.

Sources

Server Select - VALORANT Support, support article, read October 15, 2026
GetSDRConfig, Steam Datagram Relay network configuration for app 730 (Counter-Strike 2), Valve Steam Web API, official page, read October 15, 2026
AWS Health Dashboard, public current events feed (Bahrain and UAE Region Availability events), provider documentation, read October 15, 2026
Amazon DynamoDB endpoints and quotas, AWS General Reference, provider documentation, read October 15, 2026
AWS Acceptable Use Policy (last updated July 1, 2021), provider terms, read October 15, 2026
Reference times: our own stability probe on a server in a German data center, October 15, 2026 to October 18, 2026