Iran strike damages AWS facility in Bahrain

• Incident aligns with threats issued by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to target major Western tech companies and named sites across the Gulf beginning April.

Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said civil defense teams extinguished a fire at a company facility on Wednesday following “Iranian aggression,” with no injuries reported. Multiple outlets, citing a person familiar, reported the facility belonged to Amazon Web Services (AWS), indicating physical damage to the company’s Bahrain operations.

The incident aligns with threats issued by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to target major Western tech companies and named sites across the Gulf beginning April 1, though Amazon was not listed among the IRGC’s specific company targets in posts circulating on messaging channels.

This would mark the second time AWS infrastructure in Bahrain has reportedly suffered physical effects in recent weeks, following early-March incidents that also included strikes on two AWS data centres in the United Arab Emirates. AWS previously acknowledged structural and power impacts from those events and advised customers to reroute traffic, back up data, and consider migrating workloads to other regions.

As of Wednesday, public AWS service status communications continued to reflect disruptions tied to the March incidents in Bahrain and the UAE. They did not yet show a distinct April 1 Bahrain event at publication time, and details on the weapon used in Wednesday’s strike remained unclear, according to prior reporting on regional drone activity affecting AWS services.

No casualties were reported in the Bahrain fire, and Amazon had not issued a fresh public comment on the Wednesday incident at press time.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used a Telegram channel to warn that 18 major companies—spanning tech, finance, and aerospace—could face attacks across the Gulf starting April , urging employees to evacuate 29 listed facilities and advising civilians to avoid nearby areas 168.

Named firms reportedly include Google, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Cisco, IBM, Palantir, JPMorgan, Tesla, Boeing, and others, signaling a shift from proxy tactics toward direct pressure on commercial infrastructure the IRGC accuses of aiding US-Israeli operations.

The threat follows early‑March strikes Iran claimed against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft facilities in the region, which Tehran framed as blows to “technological and information infrastructure,” highlighting the disruptive potential of data‑center attacks for banking, supply chains, cloud‑hosted datasets, and public alerting systems.