Amazon says AWS Bahrain region disrupted after drone activity
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DUBAI, March 24 (Saudi Arabia Breaking News) – Amazon said its Amazon Web Services region in Bahrain had been disrupted following drone activity in the area, marking the second time in a month that the war has affected the company’s operations in the region.
The company said it was helping customers move workloads to other AWS regions while recovery efforts continued, but did not say how extensive the damage was or how long the disruption could last.
An Amazon spokesperson said the disruption was linked to drone activity in the area. As of late Monday, AWS had not updated its status page to reflect the impact.
Amazon said customers with workloads in the affected region should continue migrating to other locations as the situation developed.
The incident follows an earlier disruption this month, when AWS said facilities in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates lost power and recovery work was under way, including shifting computing workloads to other regions.
Reuters reported earlier in March that military action had disrupted a major U.S. technology company’s data centre in the UAE for the first time. Amazon later said recovery there was expected to be prolonged because of structural damage.
AWS is Amazon’s cloud computing unit and supports many major websites and government operations, while also serving as the company’s main profit driver.
