Amazon cloud unit’s data centres in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have been facing connectivity issues, the company said, amid retaliatory Iranian strikes in the region, Reuters reports.

One of the cloud unit AWS’s zones in the UAE was still without power today, after the company said that “objects” struck the data center and created sparks and fire.

Amazon reported some recovery in the UAE but recommended that customers use alternate regions as it investigates “additional connectivity issues and error rates”.

The company did not confirm or deny, when asked earlier, whether the UAE data centre incident was connected to the Iranian strikes.

Amazon did not provide a reason for the connectivity issues at its Bahrain data centre.