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.
I’m sure Alexa still has it.
Making me wanna Inshallah up
the cloud is much more secure because your data is decentralized
- Every major cloud provider when advertising their services over on-prem soloutions.
You have complete choice whether you centralise your data or not.
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.
I mean you’re supposed to use multi-region backups
* 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.
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
I’ve been working on Disaster Recovery for my company and the amount of sleep I’m losing on this is insane in general.
Our devs just write their own IaC stuff so like, they can provision their own databases and shit without us knowing with no backups or customer keys and stuff to back up properly.
Our devs just write their own IaC stuff so like, they can provision their own databases and shit without us knowing with no backups or customer keys and stuff to back up properly.
That’d give me nightmares too on top of the DR, hopefully at the minimum they can’t spin up resources in anything but a dev/test environment.
Best of luck to you, governance is super important, if it makes you feel any better you’re definitely not alone.
Fellow SRE here.
The number of times I’ve heard “we have replication” followed by “we’ve tested it…on paper” make me cry.
Trying to convince a CEO that the only way to know for sure that their backups work is to do an actual disaster test is harder than trying to convince my parents that I don’t need to eat more.
It’s incredibly hard to reign that behavior in once it’s entrenched as well.
You basically gotta take away privileges from everyone and it becomes a huge fight if you don’t have organizational support. Usually you have to wait for something to explode spectacularly for that to happen.
Oh no! Anyway…
Get them all!
Hilarious, YES IRAN!
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.
I expect Iran already hires Americans for unorganized sabotage, I know both Iran and Russia utilises Telegram to hire teenagers “torpedoes” as they’re called among mobsters.
It’s a fully gangster technique, but it’s effective. One example would be when the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen had two kids attempt to throw a grenade their way in 2024 - It’s proven to be related to Foxtrot (the largest Swedish organised crime syndicate), which Iran has influence on through one of the leaders living in Iran
You have to be a special kind of brainwashed believe that story about Iran hiring children
So what does the Foxtrot network gain by attacking an embassy? Somebody pair them. The most obvious one would be Iran
What did Iran gain besides Europe having an excuse to impose sanctions on them which is very convenient to Israel
Nobody will give their life for this, you must use drones for sabotage
Just give any American $1000 and they will be happy to do that.
Lol, I would to be honest. Short the stock for 10k with big leverage, pay 10 americans 1k each to attack a datacenter, get 50k back. But they won’t
Aaaaand this will be the last we hear of ElectricVocalist
AWS makes so much cash that they won’t even leave the region
Do it again. Harder!
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.
lol
Based based based based
good. more. do more.
Do they have a Go Fund Me or something I can donate to or something to keep them rolling?
Neither Amazon or Islamic Republic of Iran need your money, friend. Buy yourself a nice hat in stead.
And get it today, with Amazon Prime!
I would but they lost my… custom. By being evil.
Y’all really need to normalize downvoting serious replies to jokes. Just because this reply is agreeable doesn’t make it sap the joy out of the conversation any less.
Sounds like someone could use a charming hat to lighten their mood.
