Iran Claims Strike on Amazon's Bahrain Data Center
Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it attacked AWS infrastructure in Bahrain over alleged US military ties.
Iran just went after Amazon's cloud infrastructure — literally. The country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims it targeted an Amazon data center located in Bahrain on Sunday.
The reason? Iran's state media says the attack was in response to Amazon's support of "US military and intelligence activities." That's a bold accusation aimed squarely at one of the world's largest cloud providers.
Amazon Web Services operates data center regions across the globe, including in Bahrain, which serves as a key hub for Middle Eastern cloud operations. The facility supports enterprise customers throughout the region.
The strike marks a significant escalation — nation-states directly targeting commercial cloud infrastructure over alleged government partnerships. It raises immediate questions about the physical security of hyperscale data centers in geopolitically sensitive regions.
Neither Amazon nor US officials have publicly commented on the claimed attack.