Amazon’s cloud computing arm has suffered another attack in West Asia. Iran struck an Amazon Web Services facility in Bahrain on Wednesday, causing a temporary disruption to services.

 

Earlier in the conflict, Iran targeted two AWS data centres in the UAE and a separate commercial facility in Bahrain. Bahrain’s interior ministry confirmed that Civil Defence forces responded to a fire at the facility following the Iranian strikes. Authorities said they were taking measures at the site. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated the strikes were aimed at data centres that support “the enemy’s” military and intelligence operations. 

 

On March 31, Iran officially labelled 18 US technology companies as legitimate military targets. That list includes Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, Apple, Meta, HP, Tesla, Oracle, Boeing, Cisco, and IBM.