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.

For those that are not regulars in enterprise cloud computing architecture, it is a known pattern that any critical data should exist in at least two availability zones (AZ). The assumption is that you should be able to lose and entire AZ and still be able to bring up your services again without significant loss of data.

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.

In this AWS region, even the general best practices didn't protect services/data. Usually only really important applications/services are designed to withstand multi-region failure, which is what this is for the AWS Bahrain region (me-south-1).

The only way to get them to delete your data.

"We don't need our own backups. The cloud takes care of everything."

Anyone in IT who has ever been near a backup or had to do a DR exercise knows full well not to have a backup in the same geographic area as your primary workload. Usually it’s for natural disasters, but it very much applies to war too.

This is just as much, if not more, on the companies that didn’t have geographicly dispersed backups.

War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand.

Well good thing it isn't a war then

Speaking as a member of a company who has just recently realized that we can have products in regions other than us-east-1, this is not surprising. If UE1 went down the economy would collapse overnight

Never thought I'd be a cheerleader for Iran against my own country. But please, Iran, keep making America better!

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if a bombing on US territory was cheered if it was an AWS data center (or Meta, xAI, etc). Hell, Iran could probably even find US citizens for sabotage at this point if they just ask, lol.

Fuck yes, keep doing that please.

That's one way to delete your Amazon account I suppose.

Do they have a Go Fund Me or something I can donate to or something to keep them rolling?

Good. Fuck Amazon, sucks for the customers. Also what kind of company like this doesn't have backups?

lol

Hahahaha!

AWS makes so much cash that they won't even leave the region

Making me wanna Inshallah up

Oh no, not amazons marketing data!

Someone needs to shine a laser at bezos' noggin for a better permanent loss.

Iran out here doing everyone a favor

So like... the opposite of a data breach, the headlines I am used to reading about "customer data"? Hmmm... Ok.

No great loss.

3,2,1 applies to cloud regions, so everyone who lost their data permanently deserved it.

Finally! Data getting "lost" instead of "stolen". /s

Hilarious, YES IRAN!

Oh no! Anyway…

Ok, good.

Oh no, ... anyway, don't have Amazon account

The only drone delivery service I support.

Get them all!

Oh no. Anyway...

Strikes during war cause loss of many things, including life. Why is this news?

kinda surprising it didn't happen earlier

Yall this is AWS not Amazon retail. There might be some regional retail data, but most of this is data from other businesses. Loss of customer data here is referring to AWS business customers, not retail.

Do it again. Harder!

good. more. do more.

Based based based based

I'm sure Alexa still has it.

ik hope my data was deleted