Hyperscale cloud companies including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are looking to redirect data centre workloads from Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Oman to safer locations such as India and Singapore due to the West Asian conflict, people involved in talks told ET.
“Immediate capacity is being sought in locations including Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi to reroute critical workloads, especially for banking clients,” an infrastructure company executive told ET. “Keeping latency in mind, these are the best-suited locations.”
Latency reflects the impact of distance on processing speed.
On March 2, two AWS data centres in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain were struck by drones, hitting local banking apps, airport operations in Dubai and Kuwait, and the UAE stock market, which had to be closed due to tech outages. According to AWS…
