AWS Data Centres in Bahrain Hit Again As Drone Strikes Cause Outages Across West Asia

Amazon Web Services has suffered a second disruption in under a month across its Bahrain and UAE operations, with drone strikes in the region blamed for structural damage and power failures at multiple data centres.

An Amazon spokesperson told Reuters that aerial activity in the area was behind the outages. The company did not specify which facilities were affected or the scale of the downtime.

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In a statement issued Monday night, Amazon said: “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.”