An Amazon data center in Bahrain was damaged, and the government announced that 'civil defense forces are responding to the fire following an Iranian attack.'

As Middle Eastern countries suffer damage from Iran's retaliatory attacks against Israel and the United States, it has been reported that a cloud computing facility in Bahrain, which has been attacked multiple times before, has been targeted again and caught fire.

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In the early morning of February 28, 2026, local time, Israel launched a preemptive strike against Iran in a joint operation with the United States. Iran's retaliatory missile attacks have resulted in casualties in the UAE, Kuwait, and other countries, and the damage has been escalating. Amidst this, on March 1, it was reported that an 'object collision' occurred at an AWS data center in the UAE, causing a fire and a power outage. AWS later officially confirmed that 'the fire was caused by a drone attack.'

AWS displays the operational status of each region in four stages on its health dashboard under ' Service health ': 'Operating normally,' 'Impacted,' 'Degraded,' and 'Disrupted.' At the same time as the drone attacks, the status of the UAE region changed to 'Disrupted.' At that time, the status of the Middle East (Bahrain) region was 'Impacted,' but on March 23, 2026, local time, the status changed to 'Disrupted,' and an AWS representative told Reuters that this was due to 'drone attacks occurring in the region.'

It has been revealed that AWS's Middle East (Bahrain) region is in a state of chaos due to Iranian drone attacks, the second such incident following the UAE region - GIGAZINE

Amidst the continuing damage from such retaliatory attacks, the Revolutionary Guard declared on April 1, 2026, that 'if the United States and Israel continue their attacks on the Iranian leadership, we will target American high-tech and defense companies operating in the Middle East.'

Iran announced it will target one American company for each assassination in the Middle East region starting April 1st, including Apple, Google, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA - GIGAZINE

The day after the Revolutionary Guard's declaration, the Financial Times reported that sources familiar with the matter revealed that an AWS data center in Bahrain had been damaged in an Iranian attack. Prior to the Financial Times report, Bahrain's Ministry of Interior had announced that 'a fire broke out at a company's facility due to an Iranian attack, and the civil defense forces are fighting it,' without specifying the company name, but it is believed to have been an AWS facility.

As of the time of writing, AWS Service Health in Bahrain and the UAE is listed as 'Disrupted.' However, the last update date for specific Service Health anomaly reports is March 3, 2026, and no further information is available since then.

Furthermore, it is unclear whether the reported damage to AWS is related to the Revolutionary Guard's declaration of retaliation. Amazon and AWS were not included in the list of 18 companies that the Revolutionary Guard had compiled, stating that 'for every assassination attempt, we will destroy one American company.'

Amazon has not responded to media requests for comment as of the time of writing, and the actual situation in the affected regions, the problems occurring, and the prospects for recovery are unknown.

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