Amazon data center in Bahrain hit by disaster; government says "Civil Defense fighting fires after attack by Iran"
Key summary
An AWS data center in Bahrain was reported damaged by local announcements and media reports.
The Financial Times cited people familiar who said the Bahrain AWS site was hit by an Iranian attack.
AWS Service Health shows the Bahrain and UAE regions as 'Disrupted'; Bahrain's status was changed to Disrupted on 2026-03-23, with a drone attack given as the reason.
On 2026-03-01, a UAE AWS data center experienced an object strike that caused fire and a power outage; AWS later attributed the cause to a drone attack.
Context: Reports say an Israel–US preemptive strike on Iran on 2026-02-28 was followed by Iranian missile strikes that caused deaths in the UAE and Kuwait; on 2026-04-01 Iran's Revolutionary Guard announced it would target US high-tech firms in the Middle East and to target one US company per assassination, with Amazon/AWS not listed among the examples.
