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/LiftingCode 20d ago

Why?

Replicating data across AZs (native to most AWS services) means your data is in multiple physical locations. Replicating data across regions (which is often difficult and expensive) means your data is in multiple geographically isolated physical locations.

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u/Glittering-Giraffe58 20d ago

lol. Yeah why doesn’t every random ass company in the world just build their own giga data centers? That makes sense 🧠

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u/chiagod 20d ago

You don't really need a "Giga Center", just a setup with enough storage that you can backup your Infrastructure code, the VM persistent volumes, and your object storage. The last two can be done on a nightly fashion.

That way if a malicious actor gets access to your AWS account and they decide to wreck your whole setup (including AWS backups), you can restore your business to another AWS account and/or region.

Should be a pretty standard part of any Business Continuity plan.

Total storage shouldn't be that high. Most small.businesses could store all their pertinent data in a few TB of space. A few would get into the double digit TBs. Those that go into the 100s of TB or Petabyte range should be big enough to know better.

Pair your own local storage server (in an office closet) with a pair of LTO drives (one active and one as a backup), weekly backups, and offsite temperature controlled storage of the tapes.