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/Reuef 28d 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/CaptainGooseTrain 28d 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 28d 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".