Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has claimed a fresh strike on an AWS datacentre in Bahrain, months after the same facility was reportedly first taken offline. The IRGC said the attack was retaliation for a US strike on Iran's under-construction Darkhovin nuclear plant, framing the action as revenge against what it called the "child-killing US Army." However, since the AWS me-south-1 region has already been unavailable for months, the fresh claim amounts to hitting infrastructure that was arguably already dead, raising doubts about its practical significance.

The AWS Health Dashboard confirms ongoing issues in both Bahrain (me-south-1, listed as "currently unavailable") and the UAE (me-central-1, "unable to reliably support customer applications"), with no updates since 30 April and every Bahrain service reportedly offline for months. The disruption dates back to US and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February, after which AWS-hosted firms including Snowflake and Red Hat urged customers to migrate workloads, and AWS waived usage charges for its UAE region in March. Iran has reportedly also named facilities linked to Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle and Palantir as legitimate targets over their alleged support for US military operations, though The Register says it cannot independently verify the latest strike claim given the site's prolonged outage.