Iranian forces destroyed Amazon’s central data infrastructure in Bahrain, according to state-aligned media reports.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims to have targeted and destroyed the American tech giant’s infrastructure with cruise missiles in response to an American attack that allegedly destroyed an under-construction nuclear site in Southern Iran on Monday, according to reports from Iran’s Fars News Agency. Amazon has not yet confirmed damage to its infrastructure in the region, though Bahraini authorities have acknowledged that air raid sirens were activated on Tuesday and said they intercepted a wave of Iranian strikes, though officials have not reported what, if any, material damage was sustained at this time.
It’s been ten days since combat between Iran and the United States reignited in the Middle East. Last month, the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding, a 14-point document that included a 60-day ceasefire that many hoped would lead to a permanent settlement of the conflict. Things were mostly going according to plan until earlier this month when Iran struck commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, a key passageway and critical oil chokepoint that has become a central flashpoint in the war. Iran claimed on July 12th that at least one ship was hit by warning shots and stopped after turning off its systems while taking an “unapproved” route through the strait with several other vessels, “endanger[ing] maritime security.”
American forces have retaliated with 10 consecutive nights of military strikes on Iranian soil, bringing the Iranian death toll from the war to roughly 3,500 people, according to Iran’s Health Ministry. Seventeen American personnel have been killed in the Middle East since the war started in March, including two who died in Iranian attacks on Jordan and one who died in Iraq last week.
The current conflict began on February 28th when the United States and Israel attacked Iran. After civilian infrastructure in the region, such as Iranian universities and bridges, became the target of American attacks, Iranian forces vowed to retaliate with strikes on infrastructure elsewhere in the region, particularly U.S. tech companies that it deemed to have assisted in “US-Israeli terror operations.” That list included almost all major American tech companies, from Apple and Google to Boeing and Tesla, but notably overlooked Amazon, even though the tech giant’s operations in the region have become frequent targets of Iranian attacks. Since March 2026, the facilities of Amazon’s cloud services business, AWS, have been hit by Iranian strikes on at least five occasions, with four of those attacks targeting its infrastructure in Bahrain. Iran’s attacks on AWS infrastructure have marked the first time the data centers of an American tech giant have been targeted in military action.
Besides American tech targets, Iranian strikes also targeted critical infrastructure in Kuwait on Tuesday, with Kuwait accusing Iranian forces of attacking the country’s power and water desalination plants.
