IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center

https://radar.cloudflare.com/cloud-observatory/amazon/me-south-1

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

https://repost.aws/questions/QU9Tw9aOItQMKTMaJHobNnUg/https-me-south-1-console-aws-amazon-com

Amazon appears to agree.

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/07/21/iran-says-its-struck-offline-aws-facility-in-bahrain-again/5275762

The IRGC said in a statement on Tuesday that it had struck back at what it called the “child-killing US Army” by attacking Amazon infrastructure in Bahrain, claiming AWS’s “central data infrastructure” had been “destroyed” after being hit by “several cruise missiles,” according to Google Translate. The IRGC said the claimed strike was retaliation for what Iran described as a US attack on the under-construction Darkhovin nuclear facility.

A look at the AWS Health Dashboard shows that there are definitely issues in Bahrain and the UAE, with issues in both regions being blamed on the US-Iranian conflict. While the status of AWS me-central-1 (UAE) is just “unable to reliably support customer applications,” me-south-1 (Bahrain) is said to be “currently unavailable.”

The last update to the state of AWS services in Bahrain and the UAE in the open issues area of the Dashboard was on April 30, and the Service History tab shows that every single AWS service in Bahrain has been offline for months.

Awesome! Which one goes next?

Honestly, Iran could go a lot further in inspiring the left. I love that one of the main Iranian spokespersons is constantly talking about the “Epstein Class” and soft-framing the war as a class struggle.

I mean, I fucking hate Fidel Castro, but the guy wrote good propaganda.

Oh, that’s hilarious.

Not only are data centres a legitimate target due to being used by the military, they’re also a relatively small building filled with very valuable, very fragile equipment. So, if you want to cause significant problems for your enemy, they just make sense as a target.

Based