Iran says it struck Amazon data center in Bahrain

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Monday that it struck and destroyed the central data infrastructure of Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. ↘ 2.24% in Bahrain with several cruise missiles, framing the attack as retaliation for a U.S. strike on the under-construction Darkhovin Nuclear Power Plant days earlier.mehrnews+1

The IRGC said the strike was carried out as part of the 24th wave of "Operation Nasr 2," its ongoing retaliatory campaign against U.S. military and commercial assets across the Persian Gulf region. In its statement, the IRGC described the operation as a response to "the aggression and assault by the child-killing American army on the facilities under construction and the civilian population of Darkhovin".defapress+1

Darkhovin Strike Prompted Retaliation

The U.S. military struck the construction site of the Darkhovin nuclear power plant in Iran's Khuzestan Province in the early hours of Sunday, July 19, according to Iran's Atomic Energy Organization. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed the facility was in its preliminary stages of construction and contained no nuclear material, ruling out radiological risk. Iran condemned the strike as a violation of international law.middleeasteye+1

The broader U.S.-Iran conflict, which began in late February 2026, has seen both sides target military and civilian infrastructure. Since July, the U.S. has struck bridges, water desalination plants, and electrical facilities in Iran, while Tehran has retaliated by hitting U.S.-allied countries throughout the Middle East.fortune

Repeated Targeting of Amazon Infrastructure

This is not the first time Iranian forces have targeted Amazon's cloud infrastructure in Bahrain during the conflict. In early March, drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, causing power and connectivity outages that required at least a day to restore, according to Reuters. In late March, the IRGC struck the Batelco headquarters in Hamala, Bahrain, which houses Amazon cloud infrastructure.republicworld+2

No Independent Verification

The latest IRGC claim has not been independently verified. Neither Bahraini authorities nor Amazon had immediately commented on the reported strike. The ANI news agency reported that the IRGC also claimed to have destroyed a U.S. missile defense radar system and an F-15 aircraft in Jordan as part of the same wave of operations.aninews+1