Amazon (AMZN) says that it can’t restore its cloud-computing service in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) more than six months after its facilities were damaged in the Iran war.
The U.S. technology giant said in an update that the damage at multiple Bahrain-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) sites is too extensive to restore.
“After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this region,” said Amazon in a statement.
Similarly, Amazon said that it is unable to fix its cloud computing service in the UAE, although it continues to work on the problem.
Amazon announced in March of this year that two of its data centers in the UAE had been directly hit by drones, while a facility in Bahrain was damaged by a missile strike.
The company has told customers to move their cloud computing workloads to other AWS sites in the Middle East and warned that instability is likely to continue across the region.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard claimed responsibility for the strikes and said it deliberately targeted the Amazon facilities due to the company’s support of the U.S. military.
The attacks have raised questions about the security of data centres in the Middle East.
The UAE is developing “Stargate,” a massive data centre campus capable of producing five-gigawatts of power.
The UAE government says it is now considering revising the Stargate project to disperse the data centre facilities across the country.
AMZN stock has risen 6% in the last 12 months to trade at $248.42 U.S. per share.
