Report: Fire Breaks Out at AWS Data Center in Bahrain Following Iranian Attack

Amid escalating geopolitical conflict in the Middle East, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Bahrain has reportedly caught fire following a new wave of Iranian strikes. Bahrain's Interior Minister confirmed on April 1 that civil defense forces were extinguishing a blaze at an unnamed corporate facility targeted in a recent attack. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Financial Times later identified the affected site as an AWS data center. The incident occurred shortly after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared 18 major U.S. tech firms operating in the region as "legitimate targets." AWS—which recently waived an entire month of cloud charges for customers impacted by prior drone strikes on its UAE and Bahrain data centers in March—declined to comment on this latest physical breach of its cloud infrastructure.

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