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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed Monday that it launched several cruise missiles at the central data infrastructure of U.S. company Amazon in Bahrain, saying the facility was destroyed.
The IRGC's public relations office said the strike was carried out by its Aerospace Force as part of the 24th wave of Operation Nasr 2. According to the statement carried out by Tasnim, the attack came as retaliation for the U.S. military's strike a day earlier on an under-construction civilian facility in Darkhovin.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its Bahrain cloud region, known as ME-South-1, in 2019, making it the company's first data center region in the Middle East. The infrastructure serves businesses, financial institutions and government agencies across the Gulf, offering cloud computing, data storage, artificial intelligence and other digital services.
The Bahrain region consists of multiple Availability Zones designed to ensure redundancy and uninterrupted operations. However, it has been affected repeatedly by the regional conflict in recent months. In March, Amazon said its Bahrain cloud region was disrupted by drone activity, prompting customers to migrate workloads to other AWS regions while recovery efforts continued.
Earlier in the conflict, Amazon confirmed that one of its Bahrain facilities suffered physical impacts from a nearby drone strike while two of its data center facilities in the United Arab Emirates were directly hit.
The company said the incidents caused structural damage, power disruptions and degraded availability for services including Amazon EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda and RDS, affecting customers across the Gulf.
On Sunday, Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) accused the United States of striking the construction site of the Darkhovin nuclear power plant in the southwestern province of Khuzestan with multiple projectiles, calling the attack a violation of international law.
The agency did not report casualties or specify the extent of the damage.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it was investigating the reports and noted that the facility was still in the very early stages of construction and contained no nuclear material during its last inspection, meaning the reported strike was not believed to pose any radiological risk.
The agency nevertheless urged military restraint around nuclear-related sites.
The U.S. has not publicly confirmed carrying out a strike on the Darkhovin project. U.S. Central Command said it had launched a new wave of attacks against Iranian military targets following deadly attacks on American troops in Jordan, but did not mention the nuclear facility.
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