KEY POINTS
- Iran's IRGC claimed it destroyed Amazon data infrastructure in Bahrain, but neither AWS nor U.S. officials have confirmed the claim.
- Bahrain said it intercepted the attack and did not identify Amazon or any commercial infrastructure among the targets.
- AWS's Bahrain Region has remained marked as "Disrupted" since the March attacks, making it unclear whether Tuesday's claimed strike caused any new service disruptions.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have targeted Amazon data infrastructure in Bahrain during a new wave of missile strikes. Fars News Agency, an IRGC state media outlet, said on Tuesday that the IRGC had "attacked the central data infrastructure of the American company Amazon in Bahrain with several cruise missiles and destroyed it."
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has not publicly commented on Iran's claims and U.S. officials have not independently confirmed that an AWS facility was hit.
Bahrain said its air defenses intercepted the attacks and reported no casualties but did not identify Amazon or confirm that any infrastructure had been struck according to the Jerusalem Post.
Following Iran's claim, some social media users pointed to the AWS Health Dashboard which shows service in Bahrain is "Disrupted" as evidence that the attack succeeded. However, the dashboard's history shows the Bahrain region has been marked as "Disrupted" continuously since March 1, making it unclear whether Tuesday's claimed strike caused any new service degradation.
Iran successfully struck Amazon facilities in at least two separate incidents in 2026:
- March 2: Iranian Shahed drones struck two Amazon Web Services data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a commercial data center in Bahrain.
- April 1: An Iranian drone struck an Amazon data center in Bahrain following U.S. military strikes.
The repeated targeting of commercial cloud infrastructure highlights how data centers have become strategically significant during modern conflicts. Cloud services operated by companies such as AWS host workloads for governments, businesses and defense contractors, making them increasingly important components of national digital infrastructure.
