Amazon data center in Bahrain struck and destroyed by Iranian cruise missiles, state media claims — attacks launched against AWS site in response to alleged US strikes on an under-construction nuclear plant ⁠78%

By Jowi Morales⁠76%

7/21/2026, 3:47:29 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Post Hoc (False Cause), and Pessimism Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 30.5% saturation with 128 hits. Analysis detected 924 faulty-reasoning hits from 420 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 69.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠78% (4,695 of 20,517 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 77.10% of the article peer group.

Amazon’s Bahrain data center was reportedly once again hit by missile strikes after the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) conducted an attack against the site. 
Iran state media claimed that the IRGC launched cruise missiles against the AWS facility and “destroyed it” in response to the U.S.’s bombing of a nuclear plant being built in Darkhovin, Iran, which is close to the Iraqi border. 
This isn’t the first time that the American tech giant’s data centers have been attacked in the area. 
In fact, Iran used drones and missiles to hit several AWS Middle East regional data centers just days after the U.S. began its air strikes against the country. 
The damage to the sites has gotten to the point that Amazon put them in “hard down” status between late March and early April, with the last update on the AWS Health Dashboard saying that the Middle East (Bahrain) Region (ME-SOUTH-1) “is currently unavailable.” 
It isn’t clear if Amazon has begun work on restoring its services in the region. 
The U.S. and Iran agreed to a ceasefire on June 17, 2026, but the entire thing collapsed after the latter allegedly attacked three ships in the Strait of Hormuz that were sailing in Omani waters on July 7. 
This led to an escalating series of retaliations, with one of the recent Iranian strikes resulting in American casualties in Jordan. 
Aside from hitting the nuclear powerplant that’s still under construction, U.S. 
Central Command said that it also “targeted Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces that launched attacks against U.S. service members in Jordan on July 17.” 
The IRGC said that this is what led to its most recent attacks on AWS Bahrain. 
Despite the strikes, it seems that it had no effect on Amazon’s services — the company has long moved its customers to sites unaffected by the conflict, ensuring service continuity. 
While it’s possible that the tech giant is trying to repair the damage to its sites, it hasn’t released any updates about the AWS Bahrain data center. 
As long as the war between the U.S. and Iran hasn’t resulted in lasting peace, American infrastructure in the region is in grave danger of being attacked, especially as the IRGC has directly threatened American tech companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and even OpenAI’s $30-bilion Stargate data center in Dubai . 
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420 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers9.5%attributed speech380writer words
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IRGC

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16 attributed words40% of attributed speech96% writer coverage
0%7.5%15.0%Unattributed Quote-10.3 ptsWriter: 10.3%IRGC: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-8.4 ptsWriter: 8.4%IRGC: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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