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.
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.
It’s up to the customer to decide if they want data redundancy. AWS offers it, it just depends if the customer is willing to pay for it.
Pay to have your data backed up on the adjacent drive on the rack lol.
Hey, now, sometimes the rack is across the street. /s