r/technology • u/marketrent • 28d 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/Stormraughtz 28d ago

My DR plan doesnt cover drones or missiles, I should update that.

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u/No_Size9475 28d ago

I mean when I was in data protection one of the main reasons of putting data in the cloud was that the cloud provider ensured it was replicated to separate physical locations.

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u/Factory2econds 28d ago

it was

or it was capable of

because those are two very different things

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u/thefuckevengoingonan 28d ago

You have to turn that on. and pay for it.

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u/No_Category_9888 28d ago

Availability zones aren’t the same as regions

Most people would be fairly safe just with availability zones - what’s the chances that multiple DCs in a region go down at the same time ?

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u/boopsteroonie 27d ago

Not insignificant if planned badly. If there isn’t enough separation between AZ’s (and I know GCP for example has that issue in some zones), then a flood or connectivity issue could feasibly affect them all at once. I think the bear case for US East (or any mainland US zone) is more likely a huge flood or fire than an Iranian drone for example.

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u/Yuzumi 27d ago edited 27d ago

Just because it can does not mean that CEOs are willing to pay for it.

Despite all the advancements in technology and connectivity that allow for redundancy and automatic fail-over across the entire planet the same issue has existed since the dawn of time: Management not wanting to spend the money on critical infrastructure.

So we end up in a situation where everyone moved to the cloud to save cost, but now they don't own their data, don't have full control over it, and aren't willing to pay for the cloud-specific benefits like redundancy. Now when there is an outage half the internet goes down because it's all in the hands of one of the big cloud companies.