People walk past the Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo at its exhibitor booth at the India Mobile Congress 2025 at Yashobhoomi, a convention and exhibition center in New Delhi, India, on October 8, 2025.
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AmazonThe Bahrain data center was attacked by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps over the company’s support for the US military, Iranian state media said on Wednesday.
The company’s cloud computing unit said Monday that one of its facilities in Bahrain was damaged due to a nearby drone strike on Sunday. Two data centers in the United Arab Emirates were also damaged after being “directly hit” by drones.
All installations remain offline, according to the Amazon Web Services status dashboard.
The attack in Bahrain was launched “to identify the role of these centers in supporting the enemy’s military and intelligence activities,” Iran’s Fars news agency said on Telegram.
The incidents came after joint US-Israeli attacks on Iran over the weekend. Iran has retaliated against Israeli and US bases throughout the Gulf.
Amazon representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In addition to structural damage, data centers also suffered power outages and some water damage after firefighters worked to put out sparks and fires. Some popular AWS applications experienced “high error rates and degraded availability” due to the incident.
AWS recommended cloud customers back up their data, consider migrating their workloads to other regions, and divert traffic away from Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
AWS announced its Bahrain region in 2019 and hosts important workloads for governments there. The company also operates a corporate office in Bahrain that is primarily for AWS employees.
Earlier this week, Amazon instructed all of its corporate employees in the Middle East to work remotely and “follow local government guidelines” amid growing instability in the region.
