Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Amazon’s cloud business in Bahrain was damaged yet again on Wednesday due to an Iranian strike, the Financial Times reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. The strike comes only a day after Iran threatened to target American tech companies that it claimed were assisting “US-Israeli terror operations,” with strikes to start on April 1. Amazon wasn’t named in the initial list of major tech companies whose Middle Eastern offices Iran had its eye on, which instead included Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, HP, Tesla, Nvidia, Oracle, Boeing, IBM, and Cisco. The threat, according to Iran’s Press TV, also included the strikes starting at 8 p.m. Iran time. The Bahrain strike’s timing was not specified in the FT report, but it could have taken place before the threatened start time. Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said early Wednesday morning local time that the country’s civil defense force was “extinguishing a fire in a facility of a company as a result of the Iranian aggression,” without specifying which company it was. Amazon declined to comment on the purported strike and instead directed Gizmodo to comments issued following previous strikes. State-aligned media has periodical