Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Thursday it attacked an Amazon cloud computing center in Bahrain in retaliation for recent “assassinations.”
“In the first action against spy and terrorist technology companies, the cloud computing center of Amazon company in Bahrain was attacked and destroyed,” the IRGC said, without providing evidence.
In a later statement, the IRGC also said it targeted an Oracle data center in Dubai.
On Wednesday, Kamal Kharazi, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, was seriously injured and his wife was killed in what Iranian officials described as a US-Israeli attack in Tehran.
The IRGC warned this week that if assassinations continue, it would target what it called American information technology and artificial intelligence companies, which it alleged are involved in tracking and directing assassination operations.
Apple, Microsoft, Google, Meta, IBM, HP, Intel, Tesla, Boeing and JP Morgan are among the 17 companies the IRGC threatened to target earlier this week.
Amazon said in a statement last week it was working “closely with local authorities and prioritizing the safety of our personnel throughout our recovery efforts.” It added: “As this situation evolves, and as we have advised before, we request those with workloads in the affected regions continue to migrate to other locations