Amazon’s cloud computing facility in Bahrain has reportedly suffered damage following an Iranian strike, according to a report by the Financial Times. Earlier on Wednesday, Bahrain’s Interior Ministry confirmed that a fire had erupted at a business site “as a result of the Iranian aggression.” However, it did not name the company involved or detail the scale of the damage.
The incident comes amid escalating tensions in the region, with infrastructure linked to US firms increasingly becoming targets.
Iran issues warning to US-linked companies
The strike followed a warning from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, who said that companies associated with the United States could face retaliation. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Guards said, “These companies, starting from 8:00 pm (1630 GMT) Tehran time on Wednesday, April 1, should expect the destruction of their relevant units in exchange for every assassination in Iran.”
The statement also carried a direct warning for staff. “We advise the employees of these institutions to immediately leave their workplaces to preserve their lives,” it added.
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The warning named 18 companies that Iran claims are linked to what it described as the “targeted assassination” of its officials.
The situation has not been limited to Bahrain. Kuwait International Airport reported a drone strike that triggered what authorities described as “a large fire” at a fuel storage facility. Separately, a tanker off the coast of Qatar was also hit, according to a British maritime security agency.
These incidents suggest a widening pattern of attacks on locations connected to US or allied interests in the region.
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AWS disruptions continue
Amazon had already indicated disruptions to its Amazon Web Services operations in Bahrain last week, marking the second such incident in recent weeks. A company spokesperson told Reuters that earlier service interruptions were linked to drone activity in the area.
The company said it is working to shift affected workloads to other regions while recovery efforts continue. It has not disclosed the extent of the damage.
“As this situation evolves and, as we have advised before, we request those with workloads in the affected regions continue to migrate to other locations,” Amazon had said earlier.
