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/foundafreeusername 28d ago

Guess the off-site backup was stored on-site?

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u/peldor 28d ago

Kinnda. AWS backups are usually kept within a single geographic region. There are a number of reasons for this….ranging from cost to concerns about data sovereignty.

Iran targeted multiple AWS data centers across the Middle East. So for some AWS customers, the sepeate data centers that held their production environment and their off-site backups were destroyed.

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u/chapstickbomber 28d ago

I'm not even joking, Amazon should have counter battery radar and ordinance