IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

Neil44

Shows unavailable, last status update 30th April https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

tailscaler2026

Despite the destruction, me-south-1 still has more nines than us-east-1

loufe

As an aside: I lack the vocabulary, but man those interactive "stats" cards scream LLM-written to me. No problem with it, necessarily, just something about that style seems to raise a flag in my mind.

throwaw12

I feel for both, people who where hosting there not expecting this war and this attack and the attackers, because they didn't attack just because they wanted but attacked as a response as stated earlier. Winner: US military industrial complex + Israel Losers: Everyone else

pbiggar

> The AWS strikes did not emerge from an improvised targeting decision. On March 31, 2026, the IRGC formally declared eighteen US technology companies “legitimate military targets” — Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta, Oracle, Intel, HP, IBM, Cisco, Dell, Nvidia, Palantir, Tesla, Boeing, General Electric, JPMorgan Chase, and G42, the Abu Dhabi-based AI firm. Given these companies are selling the AI and cloud tech that's used by US and Israel in their invasions, wars, genocides, etc, it's no surprised that they would be deemed dual use.

axus

I guess Anthropic is safe, since they aren't military infrastructure

input_sh

After this strike, the only AWS region in the ME that remains operational is the one in Tel Aviv (a bit ironic if you ask me). UAE has been down for months, Bahrain is now offline, Saudi Arabia is still under construction.

dhx

AWS's 3 data centres in me-south-1 are: BAH53 (Manama): https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1492345589 An adjoining substation to BAH53 had one of it's two main buildings damaged/destroyed about 2026-07-16 per https://soaratlas.com/maps/asia-damage-to-data-center-power-substation-bahrain-jul-16th-2026-142024 Then about 2026-07-22 BAH53 itself was damaged/destroyed per https://soaratlas.com/maps/asia-damage-to-amazon-web-services-bahrain-jul-22nd-2026-142112 Possibly the least defended of the three sites as there is no air/missile defence battery in between this site and Iran. BAH54 (Zallaq): https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1359931661 No media reports about this data centre being attacked previously. Possibly the safest of the three as there are at least two (probably three) air/missile defence batteries in between this site and Iran. BAH55 (Hamala): https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/956069872 Apparently the Batelco DC.1 data centre adjoining (and apparently critical to) BAH55 was damaged/destroyed about 2026-04-01 per https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk28nj0lrjo _or_ the adjoining substation to these two facilities was damaged/destroyed -- news articles are hard to follow as to what exactly might have been damaged and the extent of damage caused. Middle ground for defence with one or two (maybe three) air/missile defence batteries between this site and Iran, depending on where drones/missiles are launched from. If these data centres are rebuilt, you'd maybe expect them to be rebuilt in new locations behind existing _permanent_ (and seemingly quite expensive) air/missile defence batteries in Bahrain ( https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1492281507 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1492953902 ). Based on the permanency of those air/missile defence batteries it doesn't look like the government of Bahrain are expecting things to get safer for data centre hosting in Bahrain any time soon.

drnick1

It seems only fair that Iran's frozen funds be permanently seized and used to pay for damages caused to Amazon, ships, and other facilities it targeted during the war.

rob74

I wonder how the real House of Saud would feel about having their name used by some random news website? Not amused, probably...

xyzsparetimexyz

Soo.. Is this bullish for the stock price or nah?

rootsudo

1. Wow this is a headline. 2. It’s expected and war, and while war is not good, I wonder about data backups and succession planning for this. 3. It makes sense they would’ve had a fire drill and reviewed since it’s a capital investment, 6 months of war, at the same time Bahrain is considered stable, so I really wonder about the conversation around this and if there was any disaster planning with this scenario in mind. 4. If there wasn’t, I’m sure there is now across all regions of AWS. This month has been for me, a uptick in unique headlines that I wouldn’t have thought would happen.

ulfw

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

freediddy

How long will it take to rebuild those datacenters given the supply shortage? Are we talking like 3+ years?

Macha

Between this and the Wildberries depot strikes in the Ukraine war, I think it really highlights how much peace was required to make the centralisation we've experienced work.

megous

Play with fire... if you sell services to store intelligence on occupied population to the occupant, and have no qualms about it, should anyone care you get your shit bombed from time to time? Just comes with the territory. Aside from hating how much real resources are wasted on pointless wars and assholery between people, at least this is fair.

throwaway836123

As someone who has lived most of his life in Iran, I ask those who find any alignment with the IRGC to please understand that it is a religiously fanatic military and terrorist group. They are behind many atrocities in Iran and in the region including the situation in Gaza (partially). They also provided weaponry and support to Russia against Ukraine.

pseingatl

My colleague in Dubai says that ATM's are all working so the claim that bank infrastructure is down may not be correct.

CommanderData

Completely self inflicted btw. The most unpopular war the US has ever known which has made every person in the world worse off financially, all for Israel's demands. I really don't hate to say it but maybe that ethno state should be left to deal with their matters themselves.

weinzierl

Isn't an AWS region comprised of at least three data centers "many kilometers apart" [1]? So, if the whole of me-south-1 (Bahrain) went down it means at least three buildings many kilometers apart must have been attacked. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio...