IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center

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• My colleague in Dubai says that ATM's are all working so the claim that bank infrastructure is down may not be correct.
  by pseingatl
• American agression winning silly prizes.
  by CrzyLngPwd
• I feel for both, people who where hosting there not expecting this war and this attack and the attackers, because they didn't attack just because they wanted but attacked as a response as stated earlier.

  Winner: US military industrial complex + Israel

  Losers: Everyone else

  by throwaw12
• 1. Wow this is a headline.

  2. It’s expected and war, and while war is not good, I wonder about data backups and succession planning for this.

  3. It makes sense they would’ve had a fire drill and reviewed since it’s a capital investment, 6 months of war, at the same time Bahrain is considered stable, so I really wonder about the conversation around this and if there was any disaster planning with this scenario in mind.

  4. If there wasn’t, I’m sure there is now across all regions of AWS.

  This month has been for me, a uptick in unique headlines that I wouldn’t have thought would happen.

  by rootsudo
• Shows unavailable, last status update 30th April https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
  by Neil44
• Related: Ukraine have been targeting [1] warehouses owned by Wildberries, the Russian domestic equivalent of Amazon, causing $2.2bn of damage to-date.

  [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/24/ukraine-wareho...

  by andyjohnson0
• Isn't an AWS region comprised of at least three data centers "many kilometers apart"[1]?

  So, if the whole of me-south-1 (Bahrain) went down it means at least three buildings many kilometers apart must have been attacked.

  [1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio...

  by weinzierl
• AWS's 3 data centres in me-south-1 are:

  BAH53 (Manama): https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1492345589

    An adjoining substation to BAH53 had one of it's two main buildings damaged/destroyed about 2026-07-16 per https://soaratlas.com/maps/asia-damage-to-data-center-power-substation-bahrain-jul-16th-2026-142024
  
    Then about 2026-07-22 BAH53 itself was damaged/destroyed per https://soaratlas.com/maps/asia-damage-to-amazon-web-services-bahrain-jul-22nd-2026-142112
  
    Possibly the least defended of the three sites as there is no air/missile defence battery in between this site and Iran.
  

  BAH54 (Zallaq): https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1359931661

    No media reports about this data centre being attacked previously. Possibly the safest of the three as there are at least two (probably three) air/missile defence batteries in between this site and Iran.
  

  BAH55 (Hamala): https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/956069872

    Apparently the Batelco DC.1 data centre adjoining (and apparently critical to) BAH55 was damaged/destroyed about 2026-04-01 per https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk28nj0lrjo _or_ the adjoining substation to these two facilities was damaged/destroyed -- news articles are hard to follow as to what exactly might have been damaged and the extent of damage caused.
  
    Middle ground for defence with one or two (maybe three) air/missile defence batteries between this site and Iran, depending on where drones/missiles are launched from.
  

  If these data centres are rebuilt, you'd maybe expect them to be rebuilt in new locations behind existing _permanent_ (and seemingly quite expensive) air/missile defence batteries in Bahrain (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1492281507 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1492953902). Based on the permanency of those air/missile defence batteries it doesn't look like the government of Bahrain are expecting things to get safer for data centre hosting in Bahrain any time soon.
  by dhx