Amazon said on Monday that its Amazon Web Services (AWS) region in Bahrain has been disrupted due to ongoing conflict in the Middle East, marking the second time in a month its operations have been affected.
The company attributed the outage to drone activity in the area, though it did not confirm whether its facility was directly hit or impacted by nearby strikes. As of Monday night, AWS had not updated its public status page to reflect the disruption.
Amazon said it is assisting customers in shifting workloads to other AWS regions while recovery efforts continue, but did not provide details on the extent of the damage or a timeline for restoration. It urged users with operations in the affected region to continue migrating to alternative locations as the situation develops.
AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing division and a key profit driver, supports a wide range of major websites and government systems. This latest incident follows a similar disruption earlier in the month, when facilities in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates lost power amid drone-related activity, prompting the company to reroute computing workloads.
That earlier incident marked the first known case of military action disrupting a major U.S. technology company’s data centre. Amazon had warned at the time of a potentially prolonged recovery due to structural damage, power outages, and additional complications such as fire suppression measures causing water damage.
The company also noted previously that its Bahrain operations had been affected by a nearby drone strike.
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