Amazon (AMZN) has been dragged into the current Middle East conflict.
The U.S. technology giant says it is working to restore cloud-computing services in the Middle East after drone attacks damaged three of its data centres in the region.
Amazon said in a statement that its data centre sites in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) and Bahrain have been damaged.
As a result, Amazon customers with remote-computing workloads running in the Middle East should move them to other regions where Amazon Web Services (AWS) has functioning servers, said the company.
“In the U.A.E., two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impacts to our infrastructure,” said Amazon.
Amazon, and other major U.S. technology companies, have invested billions of dollars in the Middle East, capitalizing on its energy resources to run artificial intelligence (A.I.) and high-performance computing workloads.
Last autumn, Microsoft (MSFT) announced plans to invest $8 billion U.S. in the U.A.E. over the next four years.
Google parent company Alphabet (GOOGL) said last spring that it would make a $10 billion U.S. investment in an A.I. hub located in Saudi Arabia.
Those technology giants now find themselves exposed as attacks on Iran by the U.S. and Israel widens into a larger regional war.
AMZN stock has risen 2% over the last 12 months to trade at $208.39 U.S. a share.
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