Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer Data
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Amazon definitely capitulates on the recovery of data stored in its Bahrain and United Arab Emirates facilities, heavily damaged by recent conflicts between Iran and the USA. Customers with no external backups have lost everything. The tech giant now directs its users to their own local backup systems.
AWS confirms permanent data loss at Bahrain and UAE facilities after Iran-linked strikes
Amazon Web Services told customers it cannot recover some data stored exclusively in damaged data centers in Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after drone strikes linked to Iran, prompting migration advisories and raising questions about Gulf cloud resilience.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that customer data stored in some data centers in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates damaged in the Iranian attacks could not be recovered. AWS is continuing efforts to recover other infrastructure.
Iranian attacks permanently deleted AWS customer data.
AWS stated that it was unable to restore access to resources and data stored in a number of data centers damaged by the conflict.
Amazon Web Services acknowledged that the damage suffered by its infrastructure in Bahrain exceeded what its regional and multi-AZ services were designed to resist. The post The war breaks the cloud: AWS admits that it cannot recover data after attacks on its centers in the Middle East appeared first on .
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