Amazon cloud unit's data centres in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates were facing connectivity issues on Monday, a Reuters report said quoting the company.

Though the company did not mention the reasons for this, it is believed the incidents could be related to the present situation in the Gulf following retaliatory Iranian strikes in the region in response to US and Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic.

Iranian strikes have hit airports, ports, and residential areas across the wider Gulf.

One of the cloud unit AWS' zones in the UAE was still without power on Monday, after the company said that "objects" struck the data centre and created sparks and fire.

AWS said the incident occurred at about 4:30 pm Dubai time on March 1 and that the fire department shut off power to the facility and its generators while working to extinguish the blaze, according to a post on its Health Dashboard.

“One of our Availability Zones… was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire,” the company said, referring to regional groups of data centres.

AWS said it did not have an estimated time for when power would be restored to the affected facility. Other groups of data centres were not impacted and traffic was being routed away from the site, it said.

Amazon reported some recovery in the UAE but recommended that customers use alternative regions as it investigates "additional connectivity issues and error rates", the report said.