Amazon.com Inc.'s Amazon Web Services region in Bahrain faced disruption following drone activity in the area, as tensions in the Middle East intensified, the company's spokesperson told NDTV Profit on Tuesday.
The company said it has begun moving affected customers to other AWS regions and that most customers have already shifted workloads, but it did not give details on the damage or a timeline for full restoration.
The development points to rising risks to digital infrastructure as military activity affects data centres and cloud operations that support global businesses and government services.
AWS is Amazon's cloud computing unit and supports many websites and public sector services worldwide. It is also the company's main profit driver.
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This marks the second instance of disruption to AWS facilities in Bahrain since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Earlier in March, the company said that its sites in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates faced power outages, and it shifted workloads to other regions while restoring services, Reuters, which first reported the development, said. The earlier strike on a UAE facility marked the first known case of military action affecting a data centre run by a major US technology company, the report addded.
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“These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage,” Reurers quoted AWS as saying earlier on its status page.
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