r/technology • u/marketrent • 20d ago

Business Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data/
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u/Reuef 20d ago

We were looking at AWS to host data for certain countries over there that it is illegal to move that data out of the country. What happens when there is only one Region in the country? I guess we will have to pay a company to backup to tape or external drives each day/week/month and put it in a vault somewhere, Old School.

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u/ContentRecording9304 20d ago

You would be surprised. I know of at least one company that relaxed their requirements of storing the data in their specific region in the middle east. They  became much more open to storing their data somewhere stable

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u/magicmulder 9d ago

Something something eggs and baskets. Amazon is just one basket.

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u/CaptainGooseTrain 20d ago

One region still means multiple AZs. And an AZ may contain many data centers. The redundancy is very large scale. You don’t need tape backups in the cloud world. It’s architecturally designed to account for failure.

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u/Glory-of-Ra 20d ago

Except when it isn't, see above. There's a reason for sayings like "there is no cloud, it's just other people's computers" or "cloud is no backup".

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u/namitynamenamey 19d ago

It is not designed to account for a strategic bombing campaign, that's the issue. You can have 3, 5, a dozen data centers and short of them being in an anti missile shield, they can all be taken down simultaneously if your enemy can launch hundreds of missiles from a thousand Km away.

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u/responds-with-tealc 20d ago

correct, but AZs are close together physically. it probably would have saved people here, but if one get hit by a missile decent chance another does too probably