India, March 15 -- Earlier this month, amid the major conflict between the US-Israel combine and Iran in the Middle East, Amazon's cloud services company, Amazon Web Services data centre facilities were impacted.

At least three of AWS' data centres, two in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain, were damaged by drone strikes. This is one of the first of its kind data centre disruption as a direct result of military activities.

These strikes have resulted in structural damage and power delivery disruption, along with additional water damages as a consequence of fire. Companies and institutions like Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank, ride-hailing platform Careem, among others reported outages.

The disruption has ...