KARACHI: Pakistani fintech company Sadapay on Tuesday said its application was unavailable for users after the Amazon Web Services (AWS) region in Bahrain was disrupted amid the US-Israel war on Iran.

In a statement shared on its social media handles, the company said, “The SadaPay 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.”

AWS is Amazon’s cloud computing unit and is critical for the operation of many well-known websites and government operations. It is also the company’s main driver of profits.

It added that overnight, “conditions in the affected AWS region worsened, causing a full app outage for our users”.

As per the statement, Sadapay said that it was “dealing with the downstream consequences of physical damage to shared cloud infrastructure”, similar to many other financial services across the Gulf.

“This is not a SadaPay-specific failure, but it is our problem to solve for our users, and we are treating it with full urgency,” the platform said. However, the statement assured the users that their funds remained “safe and fully accounted for”. “Debit cards, ATMs, and point of sale payments are working,” it said.

Meanwhile, Amazon said on Monday its AWS region in Bahrain had been “disrupted”, marking the second time in a month that its operations have been affected by the Gulf war.

Published in Dawn, March 25th, 2026