A number of government systems, websites and applications in Bahrain are experiencing temporary technical issues due to the global disruption affecting cloud infrastructure and Internet services worldwide.
The Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) said, in a statement yesterday, that it had taken prompt action to trace the cause and gradually restore systems that may have faced some issues.
For any inquiries, people are advised to get in touch with the Government Services Contact Centre at 80008001 or via the Tawasul app.
Amazon.com cloud service returned to normal operations on Monday, after an Internet outage caused global chaos with thousands of sites, including some of the web’s most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit.
It was the largest Internet disruption since last year’s CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems in hospitals, banks and airports, highlighting the vulnerability of the world’s interconnected technologies.
It was at least the third time in five years that AWS’ northern Virginia cluster, known as US-EAST-1, contributed to a major Internet meltdown.
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