Nigeria: How Attacks On Middle East Data Centres Expose Nigeria's Digital Vulnerability

Nigeria: How Attacks On Middle East Data Centres Expose Nigeria's Digital Vulnerability

Drone strikes that damaged three cloud facilities operated by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on March 1 have exposed Nigeria's lack of digital independence.

AWS sees 60 services go down in Bahrain – second outage in a month

Have we reached the limit regarding resilience in the hyperscalers’ highly centralised cloud model? Amazon announced ​its Amazon Web Services region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” by the conflict ‌in the Middle East – the second time in a month its operations have been affected by the war. Reuters was first to report on this and said the disruption was due to drone activity but exactly what happened has not been made public. The report quoted A…

Sadapay app unavailable following drone strikes in Bahrain

Pakistani fintech company SadaPay has said that its app temporarily went offline after a disruption to Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in Bahrain, which the company linked to regional instability tied to the conflict involving Iran. In a statement, the company said that the “app is currently unavailable for all users. Our infrastructure runs on AWS in Bahrain, which has been disrupted since the drone strikes on March 1.” The company ass…