According to the “Financial Times”, the Iranian offensive damaged the AWS data center and caused a fire in the cloud computing unit
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit in Bahrain was hit by an Iranian attack this Wednesday (April 1, 2026), according to the Financial Times. Bahrain’s Ministry of the Interior reported that civil defense teams were mobilized to fight a fire at a business facility.
The Bahraini government classified the episode as “Iranian aggression”. AWS’s cloud computing operation in the country was affected, with damage to servers and data infrastructure.
The offensive took place 1 day after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatened US companies operating in the Middle East. In a statement released on Tuesday (31 March), the military listed 18 organizations as targets. Amazon was not among them.
According to the Financial Times, AWS facilities in the region have been hit several times since the start of the conflict.
Read the list of 18 threatened companies:
- Apple
- Boeing
- Cisco
- Dell
- G42
- GE
- HP
- IBM
- Intel
- JP. Morgan
- Meta
- Microsoft
- Nvidia
- Oracle
- Palantir
- Spire Solution
- Tesla
In a statement released by state media, the Iranian military stated that units from these companies could be bombed from 8pm this Wednesday (Tehran time), 1:30pm in Brasília, and established an evacuation radius of 1 km around the targets.
The Iranian military further stated that “repeated alerts were ignored” and that citizens of the country were killed in attacks that they classify as “terrorists”attributed to adversaries and Israel. In response, they declared that they will now consider as “legitimate targets” institutions that, according to them, participate in these operations.
The extent of the damage to the AWS facility was not detailed. Reuters reported that Amazon had no comment on the attack. Experts warn that physical damage to data centers could cause prolonged disruptions to essential services.
