Amazon Web Services (AWS) has said several data centres damaged by drone strikes in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain cannot be reactivated.
The company made the announcement on Tuesday after assessing the affected facilities.
AWS Unable to Restore Several Sites
AWS said it could not restore access to resources and data hosted exclusively in the affected region.
The company operates three sites in Bahrain, according to its website.
AWS said several sites in Bahrain and one facility in the UAE could not be restored.
The company said it had exhausted all available options to recover data and resources that had not been migrated before the outages.
Drone Strikes Damaged Data Centres
AWS reported in early March that drone strikes damaged two data centres in the UAE.
A facility in Bahrain was also damaged.
The incidents occurred shortly after the United States and Israel began military strikes against Iran.
AWS previously attributed the disruptions to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
The company said the affected infrastructure has remained unavailable since the disruption began.
Customers Shift Operations Elsewhere
AWS said most affected customers were able to resume operations in other regions.
Customers restored backups or transferred data that remained accessible to alternative AWS regions.
However, AWS said data and resources that existed only in the unavailable Bahrain region could not be recovered.
The company is still working to restore resources at two sites in the UAE.
Impact on Cloud Infrastructure
AWS is a major global cloud computing provider.
It competes with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Cloud data centres support thousands of applications, websites and digital services.
They also provide computing infrastructure for artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies.
The disruption highlights the risks that regional conflicts can pose to critical digital infrastructure and cloud-based services.
