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.
Strikes during war cause loss of many things, including life. Why is this news?
Probably because some people thought it couldn’t happen to Amazon
Fuck yes, keep doing that please.
3,2,1 applies to cloud regions, so everyone who lost their data permanently deserved it.
No great loss.
Good. Fuck Amazon, sucks for the customers. Also what kind of company like this doesn’t have backups?
Presumably, the kind that likes to cut corners and not do things properly, safe in the knowledge that they’ll face no consequences. Or if they somehow do then the government will just bail them out anyway.
That’s one way to delete your Amazon account I suppose.
Oh no, … anyway, don’t have Amazon account
Finally! Data getting “lost” instead of “stolen”. /s
Oh no. Anyway…
I’m sure Alexa still has it.
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.
The only way to get them to delete your data.
I work in AWS, and it’s crazy how hard they enforce data security and compliance. We actually do fully delete your data pretty quickly. And nothing sensitive is ever logged. Always encoded at rest.
“It’s the only way to be sure.”
Nuke it from orbit.
Me: “please delete my data”
Amazon: “Lol no”
Iran “I got you babe”
