Amazon Bahrain facility targeted for US military support: Iran media

amazon‘s knowledge middle in Bahrain was targeted by Iran‘s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the corporate’s help of the US military, Iranian state media stated Wednesday.

The firm’s cloud computing unit stated Monday that certainly one of its amenities in Bahrain was broken attributable to a close-by drone strike on Sunday. Two knowledge facilities within the United Arab Emirates have been additionally broken after they have been “directly struck” by drones.

All of the amenities stay offline, in keeping with the Amazon Web Services well being dashboard.

The assault in Bahrain was launched “to identify the role of these centers in supporting the enemy’s military and intelligence activities,” Iran’s Fars News Agency stated on Telegram.

The incidents got here after joint US-Israel strikes on Iran over the weekend. Iran has retaliated towards Israeli and US bases throughout the Gulf.

Amazon declined to remark.

In addition to structural harm, the info facilities additionally skilled energy disruptions and a few water harm after firefighters labored to place out sparks and fireplace. Some standard AWS purposes skilled “elevated error rates and degraded availability” because of the incident.

AWS suggested cloud prospects to again up their knowledge, take into account migrating their workloads to different areas and direct visitors away from Bahrain and the UAE.

AWS announced its Bahrain area in 2019, and it hosts important workloads for governments there. The firm additionally operates a company workplace in Bahrain that’s primarily for AWS staff.

Earlier this week, Amazon instructed all of its company staff within the Middle East to work remotely and “follow local government guidelines” amid escalating instability within the area.