Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims it destroyed AWS's central data infrastructure in Bahrain with cruise missiles, in retaliation for a US attack on a nuclear facility. AWS's me-south-1 region in Bahrain has been continuously unavailable for months, with the last public update on April 30, and AWS waived usage charges for March 2026 in its UAE region following earlier attacks. Iran has also reportedly designated facilities associated with Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Palantir as legitimate targets for retaliatory strikes.
A major cloud provider's compute capacity in a key region has been offline for months due to geopolitical conflict, directly impacting customers and raising supply chain risk for AI infrastructure.