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A cloud computing facility operated by Amazon in Bahrain was damaged in an Iranian strike, according to a source familiar with the matter, The Caspian Post reports, citing the Financial Times.
Earlier, Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said civil defense teams were working to extinguish a fire at a company facility caused by the attack, but did not name the company or detail the extent of the damage. Amazon declined to comment on the reported strike.
The incident signals that the conflict involving the US, Israel and Iran is increasingly affecting the Gulf’s commercial technology infrastructure.
It follows a warning from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which threatened to target major US tech firms operating in the Middle East, including Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Apple.
Amazon had earlier said on March 2 that two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain were impacted by drone strikes.
Amazon Web Services launched its Middle East (Bahrain) Region in July 2019 as its first cloud region in the region, comprising three availability zones designed to provide lower-latency services.
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