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Manama: Amazon's cloud arm told AFP on Tuesday that its service in Bahrain had been disrupted, after drone attacks hit the region.
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) spokesperson said the disruption was ongoing, without specifying the exact location affected or any potential damage done.
"The AWS Bahrain Region has been disrupted as a result of the ongoing conflict," the spokesperson said, adding that the company was helping affected customers migrate to AWS servers elsewhere in the world.
"We are working closely with local authorities and prioritising the safety of our personnel."
AFP journalists in Bahrain said the government's portal for online procedures was inaccessible, as were several other services.
The country's main telecommunications company sent a message to its customers apologising for a "technical problem" affecting its operations.
Since the Middle East war erupted in late February, Bahrain and other Gulf countries have been regularly targeted by Iranian missile and drone strikes in retaliation for the US campaign.
AWS said in early March that drone strikes damaged two of its data centres in the United Arab Emirates and a facility in Bahrain.
AWS is the world's leading cloud computing provider, competing with rivals including Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud to offer infrastructure that underpins popular apps and websites, as well as powering generative AI.
A 2025 blog post on the AWS website said that "more than 85 percent of (the Bahraini) government's workload (was) now hosted in the cloud".
