Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again
AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims it hit an AWS datacenter in Bahrain months after taking it offline for the first time, in a move it claimed as retaliation for a US attack on a nuclear plant that was under construction.
The IRGC said in a statement on Tuesday that it had struck back at what it called the "child-killing US Army" by attacking Amazon infrastructure in Bahrain, claiming AWS's "central data infrastructure" had been "destroyed" after being hit by "several cruise missiles," according to Google Translate. The IRGC said the claimed strike was retaliation for what Iran described as a US attack on the under-construction Darkhovin nuclear facility.
A look at the AWS Health Dashboardshows that there are definitely issues in Bahrain and the UAE, with issues in both regions being blamed...
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