Amazon says AWS’s Bahrain region ‘disrupted’ following drone activity

Various civilian installations across the Gulf, including oil refineries and data centres, have been caught in the crossfire in the US-Israeli war against Iran.

Amazon Web Services said on Tuesday that its operational unit in Bahrain had been disrupted due to “drone activity” amid the ongoing conflict in West Asia.

The cloud computing giant said it is helping customers migrate to alternate an AWS units while it recovers, news agency Reuters reported.

“As this situation evolves and, as we have advised before, we request those with workloads in the affected ⁠regions continue to ⁠migrate to other locations,” Amazon said in a statement.

Various civilian installations across the Gulf, including oil refineries and data centres, have been caught in the crossfire in the US-Israeli war against Iran.

Earlier in March, two AWS data centres in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and another in Bahrain were damaged in Iranian drone strikes.

Modern businesses are increasingly relying on cloud infrastructure — storing data and outsourcing digital services to remote data centres. These are managed and operated by firms such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, processing information from multiple sectors, including financial markets, digital payments, and modern militaries.

Hence, a disruption could affect thousands of organisations at a time. Before the conflict, global tech giants had announced billions of dollars in investments on data centres and AI computing facilities across the region. Attacks such as these can dry up investment inflow.

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Amazon Web Services said on Tuesday that its operational unit in Bahrain had been disrupted due to “drone activity” amid the ongoing conflict in West Asia.

The cloud computing giant said it is helping customers migrate to alternate an AWS units while it recovers, news agency Reuters reported.

“As this situation evolves and, as we have advised before, we request those with workloads in the affected ⁠regions continue to ⁠migrate to other locations,” Amazon said in a statement.

Various civilian installations across the Gulf, including oil refineries and data centres, have been caught in the crossfire in the US-Israeli war against Iran.

Earlier in March, two AWS data centres in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and another in Bahrain were damaged in Iranian drone strikes.

Modern businesses are increasingly relying on cloud infrastructure — storing data and outsourcing digital services to remote data centres. These are managed and operated by firms such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, processing information from multiple sectors, including financial markets, digital payments, and modern militaries.

Hence, a disruption could affect thousands of organisations at a time. Before the conflict, global tech giants had announced billions of dollars in investments on data centres and AI computing facilities across the region. Attacks such as these can dry up investment inflow.