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.
Never thought I’d be a cheerleader for Iran against my own country. But please, Iran, keep making America better!
They didn’t attack US data centers… This hurt the companies in the area. Amazon almost certainly had it all covered by insurance.
I doubt Amazon had any liabiliy here - the contract they make you sign probably says “we’ll try really hard but if we lose your data, it’s your fault.” Microsoft does that with Azure.
I meant the physical hardware destruction, not loss of data.
In sure they don’t pay for that insurance and the rates will remain the same.
Still teaches people to avoid fascist fucker B
Large companies don’t always insure like that. It’s just as likely that Amazon self insures.