Amazon's Bahrain Data Center Targeted By Iran For US Military Support (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/05/0548253/amazons-bahrain-data-center-targeted-by-iran-for-us-military-support
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/amazon-bahrain-data-centers-targeted-iran-drone-strike.html
> All of the facilities remain offline, according to the Amazon Web Services health dashboard. The attack in Bahrain was launched "to identify the role of these centers in supporting the enemy's military and intelligence activities," Iran's Fars News Agency said [3]on Telegram .
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> In addition to structural damage, the data centers also experienced power disruptions and some water damage after firefighters worked to put out sparks and fire. Some popular AWS applications experienced "elevated error rates and degraded availability" due to the incident. AWS advised cloud customers to back up their data, consider migrating their workloads to other regions and direct traffic away from Bahrain and the UAE.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/amazon-bahrain-data-centers-targeted-iran-drone-strike.html
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/03/0423206/amazon-cloud-units-data-centers-in-uae-bahrain-damaged-in-drone-strikes
[3] https://t.me/farsna/415292
"Back up your data" (Score:5, Insightful)
> AWS advised cloud customers to back up their data
That's a hell of a selling point for your cloud offerings, Amazon. Isn't that a big selling point of paying for "the cloud", not having to worry about things like backups?
Re: (Score:2)
Hell of a selling point for a lot of US companies.
Everything US based is becoming a target.
Remind me, didn't Trump say something about not doing exactly what he is doing now?
Re: (Score:2)
If you're talking about AWS managed backup with cross-region replication, yes, it's a big selling point. It's very affordable and easy to use.
That said, you still have to click the button to enable it.
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and pay for it
In other news: Ukraine (Score:3, Insightful)
Isn't it just amazing how in just the last few days The Trump Administration (tm) seems to value Ukrainian expertise with drones and shit?
Maybe if we didn't send real estate developers to negotiate this shit while Mafia Don plays golf.
Seems like a poor strategy (Score:4, Insightful)
I could see if Iran was attacking military bases but Amazon data centers? That's a great way to upset the citizens of those various kingdoms. It's not like they love the US, but they don't care for Iran either. Seems foolhardly for Iran to push neighbors to side with the USA, especially when Russia is tied up in Ukraine.
This kind of stuff could push a neutral party into become an adversary.
Past that (Score:2)
This is an existential war from the IRGC's perspective. They are attacking hotels in friendly countries as well, looking for short-term pressure relief. They don't have good options, so they're risking bad ones.
The one thing that went relatively well for them was rolling up THAAD coverage. That's going to hurt in multiple ways, and it demonstrates they still have some punch.
I bet Kegseth really wanted a drink after he found out.
Re:Seems like a poor strategy (Score:5, Insightful)
If it is a datacenter of the aggressor that runs the anthropic model, which chooses as targets the girl schools in Iran, among others, it is a legitimate military target for retaliation.
What's so hard to understand?