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Title: Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer
Data

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/17/0619253/i...

Ars Technica reports: 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. The company is still working on
"recovering regional resources" and restoring resources hosted in the other
two availability zones in the United Arab Emirates... But the destruction was
apparently even more widespread for the data centers in the Bahrain region,
because Amazon said it was unable to restore access to resources and data
across all three availability zones there. "The damage to our infrastructure
spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-
AZ services are designed to withstand," the AWS update said. The company had
already suspended customer billing in the affected AWS regions in Bahrain and
the United Arab Emirates and has spent the past six months attempting to
restore normal operations... [When the war began] AWS immediately urged
customers to migrate resources to other cloud regions and use remote backups
to restore any "inaccessible resources." The cloud service also reportedly
issued $150 million in customer credits following the initial Iranian strikes
in March.

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