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Fire at AWS data center in Bahrain after Iranian attack - report
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An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Bahrain has allegedly suffered another blow in the Iran-US conflict.
Key facts
- As a result, AWS later sent an email to customers stating that it was "waiving all usage-related charges in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region for March 2026
- This latest hit comes shortly after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) publicly named 18 major US tech companies located in the Middle East as "legitimate targets," though AWS
- An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Bahrain has allegedly suffered another blow in the Iran-US conflict
- While Iran has targeted data centers in US-affiliated countries or run by US companies, the country has also had its data centers targeted
Summary
Bahrain's interior minister said yesterday, April 1, that the defense force was “extinguishing a fire in a facility of a company because of the Iranian aggression,” though did not disclose the firm's name. Citing a person familiar with the matter, it is an AWS data center that was impacted. The war has already seen several attacks on Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers, with two hit by drone strikes in the UAE and a third damaged in Bahrain in early March. As a result, AWS later sent an email to customers stating that it was "waiving all usage-related charges in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region for March 2026.