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Iran strikes again at global internet infrastructure in Bahrain: AWS and online banking systems under attack

Bahrain is once again reporting an attack on infrastructure related to Amazon Web Services and other digital services.

According to En.Haberler, the Hamala district in Bahrain, where Batelco’s infrastructure serving AWS is located, has been hit again. The publication writes about the disruptions that affected banking and aviation systems, and links the attack to Tehran’s statements about its intention to hit American technology companies in the region. There is no independent confirmation of this particular episode from Amazon, Batelco, or major international agencies at the time of publication, so this fragment should be presented as a media report, and not an established fact.

Meanwhile, the context of the attacks on AWS in Bahrain has been previously confirmed. On March 24, the AWS Bahrain region again experienced outages due to drone activity, while Amazon was helping customers move workloads to other regions. This was the second such incident in a month.

Back in early March, AWS facilities in Bahrain and the UAE were hit by drone strikes, causing structural damage, power outages, and cloud service disruptions. It was after those attacks that it became clear that data centers and cloud infrastructure in the Middle East had become a real target in the war, not just a theoretical risk.

Why is AWS Bahrain so important?

AWS Bahrain is a key cloud hub for businesses and services in the region. Reuters has noted that its outages have already affected financial institutions and other online platforms. If the current report of a new attack is confirmed, it would mark another attack not just on a single facility, but on the digital infrastructure on which a large number of businesses depend.

Previously, dev.ua wrote about how the Meta «2Africa» submarine cable project, which was supposed to connect the coastal states of Africa with Europe and Asia, faced a serious obstacle due to the ongoing conflict between the US, Israel and Iran. Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), the contractor laying the fiber-optic cables for the project, declared force majeure, saying that it could no longer safely carry out work in the Persian Gulf.

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