Amazon Web Services is experiencing its second service disruption in the Middle East since the start of the Iran war, less than a month ago.
AWS services in Bahrain were disrupted this week due to drone activity in the region, Amazon said.
“We are working closely with local authorities and prioritizing the safety of our personnel throughout our recovery efforts,” an Amazon spokesperson told Gizmodo. “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.”
Earlier this month, Amazon’s cloud service provider experienced another outage when a drone strike hit near an operating facility in Bahrain, and another hit the company’s data centers in the United Arab Emirates. The strikes caused structural damage, power disruptions, and water damage, AWS said at the time.
The attacks were the first time an American tech giant’s data centers were targeted in…
