The flames of war have spread to the technology sector! The Amazon Middle East cloud computing center has been attacked, with more infrastructure becoming targets.

Cailian Press April 3 (Editor: Niu Zhanlin). On Thursday local time, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had carried out an attack on an Amazon cloud computing center located in Bahrain in retaliation for a U.S. military action taken earlier.

An IRGC statement said: “This operation is the first real warning issued to the enemy. If the relevant warning is ignored and assassination operations continue, we will impose even harsher penalties on the next batch of named companies. At that time, full responsibility for the total destruction of these companies in the region will be borne by the U.S. president himself.”

Bahrain’s authorities confirmed that after Iranian attacks on Amazon infrastructure, the civil defense department is putting out fires at the scene—also the second attack on Amazon infrastructure in Bahrain within the past two days.

On Thursday, Bahrain’s foreign minister Zayany told the UN Security Council that it hopes the Council will vote on a resolution drafted by Bahrain on Friday, aimed at protecting commercial shipping safety in the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters.

Earlier this week, the IRGC designated as strike targets a number of companies and institutions associated with 18 U.S. information and communications technology and artificial intelligence (AI) firms in the Middle East. However, Amazon was not included in this list.

The released list includes multiple major U.S. technology companies such as Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, as well as hardware suppliers like HP, Intel, IBM, and Cisco. In addition, companies such as Tesla, Nvidia, Oracle, JPMorgan Chase, and Boeing are also on the list.

Iran accuses these companies of supporting U.S. military actions and labels them as “lawful targets of attack,” arguing they should be held responsible for related actions against Iran. “From now on, for every assassination incident, one U.S. company will be destroyed.”

These threats from Iran are aimed at U.S. companies’ facilities and personnel in the Middle East, not at office locations on U.S. soil. But this warning has pulled these U.S. firms directly into a conflict that has already pushed fuel prices to historic highs and disrupted global supply chains.

As part of large-scale AI infrastructure development in the Middle East, Microsoft and Amazon have invested tens of billions of dollars in data centers in Gulf countries. The IRGC accuses these companies of providing technical support for the U.S.-Israel joint military action against Iran.

Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported a service outage in its Bahrain region, attributed to drone activity related to the Middle East conflict.

At the time, an Amazon spokesperson said the company was helping customers migrate services to other AWS regions while working to restore operations at affected sites. As Amazon’s cloud computing division, AWS supports the operation of many widely used websites and government systems, and is also an important source of profit for the company.

In addition to the technology companies mentioned above, Iran has also listed multiple bridges as potential military strike targets, including bridges located in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Jordan.

It is understood that on Thursday, a bridge on the Beik Highway in Beyk, Karaj County—an iconic Iranian engineering project—was damaged in a strike by the United States and Israel. The attack damaged the main structural components of the bridge, and the relevant sections have been fully closed. Local authorities issued an emergency reminder urging the public to avoid the area. The attack also caused a disruption in electricity supply in parts of Karaj.

U.S. President Trump then posted that Iran’s largest bridge collapsed and can no longer be used—there will be more afterward! It’s time for Iran to reach an agreement, so it doesn’t become too late.

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