The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed on July 21, 2026, that it destroyed Amazon Web Services' data center in Bahrain using cruise missiles. This strike was stated as retaliation for a US attack on Iran’s Darkhovin nuclear power plant two days prior. The claim, unconfirmed by Amazon or CENTCOM, represents a significant escalation, potentially marking the first use of cruise missiles against commercial cloud infrastructure in the Gulf conflict and the third strike on the same AWS facility since March.

The IRGC also claimed simultaneous strikes on a US air-defense radar and a Patriot battery in Bahrain, treating the AWS data center as a military-grade objective. This targeting logic extends to all US-branded digital infrastructure in the Gulf, impacting countries like Saudi Arabia with significant cloud investments and legacy workloads in Bahrain.

This incident follows previous attacks on AWS-related infrastructure in Bahrain, including drone strikes in March and missile attacks on Batelco’s headquarters in April. The IRGC’s justification, linking the AWS strike explicitly to a nuclear facility, introduces a new escalation tier in Operation Nasr-2, broadening the scope of authorized retaliatory actions.