Amazon said Monday the Amazon Web Services (AWS) region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” due to drone activity in the area. This comes amid the current conflict in the Middle East, and marks the second time in a month that its operations have been affected by the war.
Amazon said it is helping to migrate customers to alternate AWS regions while it recovers, though it did not provide additional details such as the extent of the damage or how long it anticipates the disruption to last. It also did not comment on whether the disruption was caused by a direct drone strike on the facility or nearby strikes.
“The AWS Bahrain Region has been disrupted as a result of the ongoing conflict. We are working closely with local authorities and prioritizing the safety of our personnel throughout our recovery efforts. We continue to support affected customers, helping them to migrate to alternate AWS Regions, with a large number already successfully operating their applications from other parts of the world. 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.
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AWS is Amazon’s cloud computing unit and critical for the operation of many well-known websites and government operations. It is also the company’s main driver of profits.
This is the second instance of drone activity affecting AWS services ever since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran started. Amazon had said earlier this month that some of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes in the Middle East conflict, disrupting cloud services and making a recovery “prolonged.”
This came after Iran fired drones and missiles at Gulf states in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This was the first time a major U.S. tech company’s data center was disrupted by military action.
“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,” AWS said earlier this month on its status page.
According to Al Jazeera, the latest disruption comes after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened on March 11 to attack “economic centers and banks” related to U.S. and Israeli entities in the region.