Amazon said on Monday that its Amazon Web Services (AWS) facility in Bahrain has been “disrupted” due to drone activity amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, affecting operations for customers in the area. The company is assisting clients in migrating workloads to alternate regions while it works to restore services.An Amazon spokesperson told Reuters that the disruption is linked to drone activity in the area, but the company declined to provide further details on the scale of the damage or how long the interruption might last. “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,” the statement said.
AWS, which is the cloud computing arm of Amazon, underpins a large portion of digital infrastructure globally. It hosts websites, applications and services for businesses,…
