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Iran Claims It Hit AWS Bahrain Again. The Region Has Been Offline For Months Anyway.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims to have struck AWS infrastructure in Bahrain again with cruise missiles, describing it as retaliation for a reported US attack on an Iranian nuclear facility under construction. AWS services in Bahrain have already been offline for months following earlier Iranian strikes in late February, making it difficult to verify whether a new attack actually occurred. Iran has also designated facilities linked to other major tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Oracle, as potential targets for future retaliatory strikes.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has claimed, for the second time, that it attacked Amazon Web Services infrastructure in Bahrain. According to the IRGC, the strike involved cruise missiles targeting what it described as AWS's 'central data infrastructure,' which it said was 'destroyed.' The stated justification this time around is retaliation for a US attack on Iran's Darkhovin nuclear facility, which was still under construction.

The IRGC's statement referred to the 'child-killing US Army,' which gives you a reasonable sense of the diplomatic register we're operating in here.

Checking the AWS Health Dashboard confirms there are genuine problems in both Bahrain and the UAE, with both regions officially attributing their outages to the US-Iran conflict. The UAE's me-central-1 region is described as unable to 'reliably support customer applications.' Bahrain's me-south-1 is blunter: 'currently unavailable.'

The last Dashboard update for those regions was 30 April. The Service History tab shows every single AWS service in Bahrain has been down for months. Not degraded. Offline.

This creates an obvious verification problem. Iran is claiming a fresh successful strike on a facility that was already, by all available evidence, completely non-functional. It's a bit like claiming credit for burning down a building that burned down last quarter.

This isn't the first rodeo. Iranian state media had previously claimed deliberate strikes on AWS infrastructure in Bahrain and the UAE following US and Israeli attacks on Iran in late February. The fallout was real enough: providers including Snowflake and Red Hat told affected customers to migrate workloads elsewhere. AWS quietly waived usage charges for March 2026 in its UAE region.

Iran has also reportedly flagged facilities linked to Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Palantir as legitimate targets, on the basis that those companies support US military operations.

We contacted AWS for comment. They didn't respond.

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