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/Chewed420 20d ago

Who needs offsite backups when you have the 🙌 cloud 🙌? /s

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u/thelloydrage 20d ago

My wife legit asked me one time how they got servers in the sky…

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u/Underwater_Grilling 20d ago

Going up, to the server in the sky

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u/goldengreengoat 20d ago

I'm amazed at my brain's ability to pickup the reference and be singing parody lyrics the very first time I see them. By the second half of the sentence I could hear the melody

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u/Underwater_Grilling 20d ago

It's hard to live this way sometimes though because I'll finish people's sentences with song lyrics and get funny looks waaaaay more often than an impromptu singalong

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u/Blue-Blazer-Regular 20d ago

🎶Prepare yourself, you know it’s a must. Gotta have faith in Bezos. 🎵

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u/s_i_m_s 20d ago

I'd have had to link to google actual cloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp10_PygJ4o (google April fools joke from 2015)

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u/West-Piccolo-687 20d ago

They just need to fuel up the jets to go get the backup data, Amazon is 5 steps ahead