IRGC says it destroyed Amazon data hub in Bahrain

On July 21, 2026, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it destroyed what it called Amazon's central data hub in Bahrain with missile strikes, and that it also struck US air-defence systems on the island. The IRGC said the actions were retaliation for recent US strikes on Iranian sites.

The company said earlier this year that its cloud operations in Bahrain had been damaged by an Iranian strike; officials have not publicly confirmed new physical damage. Iran's mission to the United Nations called for condemnation of US actions at a nuclear site, the mission said.

Bahrain infrastructure and air-defence claims

The IRGC's statement named the data infrastructure and air-defence arrays as targets, saying strikes disabled them. Officials said details on casualties, damage assessments and independent verification were not available at the time of the announcement.

Regional security officials have long flagged data centres and communications nodes in the Gulf as sensitive assets because they host international cloud services and military-support systems. Damage to such facilities can disrupt commercial cloud services, regional routing for telecoms and co-located defence networks.

Monitor official responses and technical verification through 23 July 2026; governments and the company may issue damage assessments or rebuttals by that date. The next 48 hours will be critical for diplomatic statements and possible operational impacts to cloud customers and regional defence postures.