AWS: New disruptions at data centers in Bahrain after "drone activity"
Three and a half weeks after the start of the war, AWS services in the Emirates are still disrupted, and now new impairments are emerging in Bahrain.
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Amazon's cloud service AWS was also interrupted in Bahrain “due to drone activity.” The disruption in the United Arab Emirates has not yet been resolved. This is according to a report by Reuters and the cloud service's status page. Amazon has confirmed to the news agency that the AWS region Bahrain is disrupted and that customers are being helped to migrate to other data centers. There is no further information on the status page yet. After it previously only stated that the technology in Bahrain was “affected,” the status has now merely been changed to “interrupted.” It is unclear whether data centers were directly hit or isolated for security reasons.
Targeted Iranian attacks on AWS
The first AWS data centers in the region were damaged shortly after the outbreak of war in early March. Initially, AWS stated that they were hit by “objects.” Only noticeably later did the cloud company confirm that the ongoing disruptions were due to drone impacts and thus directly related to the fighting in the region. Two facilities in the United Arab Emirates were directly hit, while a drone crashed near one in Bahrain. The hits resulted in “structural damage” and also impacted the power supply. The US corporation advised switching AWS regions at the time.
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What exactly happened in Bahrain now is still unclear. On Reddit, there are some reports that almost all cloud locations there have failed. On the AWS status page, only numerous affected services and one disrupted service are mentioned; the information is apparently no longer up-to-date. Since the USA and Israel have been carrying out air strikes on Iran, the Islamic Republic has been retaliating with attacks on direct neighbors in the Persian Gulf. According to a state news agency, the attacks on AWS were intentional, targeting strategic objectives because they supported military and intelligence activities of the enemy.
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