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IRGC Claims New Strikes on Amazon Data Centers in Bahrain and Dubai
Bahrain’s interior ministry said civil defense teams extinguished a fire after the strike, while Amazon said its AWS region had already been disrupted.
- On Wednesday, Iran struck an Amazon Web Services cloud computing facility in Bahrain, with the interior ministry confirming a fire resulted from what it called "Iranian aggression."
- The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had threatened 18 American companies in retaliation for US-Israeli military operations, warning that employees should "immediately leave their workplaces to preserve their lives."
- Amazon Web Services had previously advised clients to migrate workloads to other regions amid regional conflict, marking the second disruption of the company's Bahrain operations this month.
- The British embassy in Saudi Arabia warned nationals to avoid US-linked facilities, while Kuwait reported a drone attack that sparked a large fire at a fuel depot and a tanker was hit off Qatar.
- President Trump stated American forces will leave the region "very soon" within two to three weeks, while Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian defended the nation's response as "legitimate self-defense" in a letter to the American people.
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Amazon says cloud operations in Bahrain disrupted after Iranian threats to US companies
Iran warned that beginning April 1, it would target American companies in response to US and Israel operations in its country. By Vered Weiss, The Media Line The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility for damage at Amazon’s cloud computing center in Bahrain, following earlier threats to target US companies operating in the region, as tensions escalate in the ongoing conflict involving the United States and Israel. Bahra…
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Total News Sources72
Leaning Left7Leaning Right10Center8Last UpdatedBias Distribution40% Right
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C 32%
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