IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center

IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon’s Bahrain Data Center

Data center server hall with rows of rack-mounted servers — the type of hyperscale infrastructure targeted by IRGC cruise missiles in Wave 24

IRGC claims cruise missile strike destroyed AWS Bahrain data center in Wave 24, citing Darkhovin nuclear plant as casus belli. Third strike on same facility since March. July 21, 2026 MANAMA — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed on July 21 that it struck and destroyed Amazon Web Services’ data center in Bahrain with cruise missiles, in stated retaliation for the US strike on Iran’s Darkhovin nuclear power plant two days earlier. The claim, carried by IRNA, Tasnim, and Iran International but unconfirmed by Amazon or CENTCOM, would mark the first use of cruise missiles against commercial cloud infrastructure in … Continue reading IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon’s Bahrain Data Center

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