The Iran war poses ongoing challenges for cloud provider Amazon Web Services, its chief, Matt Garman, said on Tuesday.
The Amazon division said in early March that drone strikes had damaged its data centers in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
“It’s a really difficult situation, and we’re working incredibly hard,” Garman told CNBC’s Kate Rooney at the HumanX conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. “In fact, we have teams, 24/7, working to make sure that we can keep our infrastructure up for our customers in that region.”
Dozens of AWS services in Bahrain and United Arab Emirates continue to be unavailable, according to the company’s status page.
Last week, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Navy announced that it had targeted Amazon data center infrastructure in Bahrain. Amazon declined to comment at the time.
Data centers, particularly those housing chips that can handle generative artificial intelligence models, consume large amounts of energy, which has become more expensive…
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