War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand.
Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Amazon Web Services was “unable to restore access to the resources and data” hosted in some of the war-damaged data centers, according to an AWS dashboard update posted on September 15. The development was first reported by Reuters and suggests that the Iranian strikes inflicted catastrophic damage on the data centers.
Customer data was irretrievably lost in one of three AWS availability zones in the United Arab Emirates region, specifically the mec1-az2 availability zone. Each availability zone is serviced by one or more Amazon data centers.
Finally! Data getting “lost” instead of “stolen”. /s
ik hope my data was deleted
kinda surprising it didn’t happen earlier
“We don’t need our own backups. The cloud takes care of everything.”
People who don’t understand what they are buying almost always find out the hard way.
Do they have a Go Fund Me or something I can donate to or something to keep them rolling?
Neither Amazon or Islamic Republic of Iran need your money, friend. Buy yourself a nice hat in stead.
Y’all really need to normalize downvoting serious replies to jokes. Just because this reply is agreeable doesn’t make it sap the joy out of the conversation any less.
And get it today, with Amazon Prime!
The only way to get them to delete your data.
“It’s the only way to be sure.”
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if a bombing on US territory was cheered if it was an AWS data center (or Meta, xAI, etc). Hell, Iran could probably even find US citizens for sabotage at this point if they just ask, lol.
Oh no, not amazons marketing data!
lol
War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand.
Well good thing it isn’t a war then
They are intentionally designed to withstand a little bit of “war damage”?
Like an Amazon data warehouse construction guy needs to specifically add a little bit of extra cement or some shit to meet a war damage protection quota?
good. more. do more.
Iran out here doing everyone a favor
Do it again. Harder!
Someone needs to shine a laser at bezos’ noggin for a better permanent loss.
Hilarious, YES IRAN!
