Iran's IRGC said on April 2 it had struck data centres belonging to US tech companies Oracle in Dubai and Amazon in Bahrain, following through on threats issued on March 31 to target American technology firms in the region, Oxu.Az reported, citing an IRGC statement on X.

"We struck the data centres of two American companies Oracle in Dubai and Amazon in Bahrain. We had previously warned that our actions in response to the killing of Iranians would be directed at disabling the terror machine," the IRGC said.

Tasnim News Agency reported the Guard claimed the Amazon facility in Bahrain had been "destroyed" and warned that American companies "will be punished much more severely" if attacks on Iran continue.

The claims could not be independently verified. Neither Oracle nor Amazon immediately commented.

The Bahrain Amazon facility has been targeted before. The IRGC claimed a strike on the data centre on March 4, while an Amazon facility in the UAE was hit on March 2, with reports at the time of a fire in the ME-CENTRAL-1 region caused by debris striking the building. That centre was temporarily knocked offline.

The strikes follow the IRGC's March 31 threat to target facilities belonging to 18 US technology and AI companies it accused of providing targeting data for assassinations of Iranian nationals.

The list included Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Dell, Palantir, Nvidia, JP Morgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solution, G42 and Boeing.

The targeting of cloud computing infrastructure marks an expansion of the war into the digital economy.

Both Dubai and Bahrain host major data centre clusters serving clients across the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Any sustained disruption could affect cloud services, financial systems and enterprise operations across the region.