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.
the cloud is much more secure because your data is decentralized
* But only if you pay for the most redundant storage, which cost all the money.
Extra infrastructure costs extra…. Who would have thought?
Yes, storing PBs of tape in collocations is sooooooo much cheaper 🙄
AWS sucks for a lot of reasons none of which are this .
i wanna do this ;(
I’m running a nas collocated with hand swapped drives.
I get it, but I also understand the reality.
the reality is that the working class can currently afford tape drives and might not be able to in 3 years
I mean you’re supposed to use multi-region backups
AWS is not responsible for backing up your data. They tell you this up front.
You don’t have to be reasonable when it comes to megacorps, because they suck and we all hate them.
You have complete choice whether you centralise your data or not.