Amazon Web Services has confirmed that some customer data stored in its Middle East data centers damaged by military action is permanently unrecoverable This article explores aws working recover. . Half a year after Iranian drone strikes disrupted multiple Amazon data centers, the company has acknowledged the permanent loss of information in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

In an AWS Health Dashboard update posted on September 15, the cloud giant said it was “unable to restore access to the resources and data” hosted exclusively in the affected sites. Each availability zone is serviced by one or more physical Amazon data centers, and AWS is working to recover regional resources and restore the other two affected zones, mec1-az1 and mec1-az3.

According to the dashboard, objects struck the mec1-az2 data center at around 4:30 AM PST, creating sparks and fire that overwhelmed recovery efforts. The admission is noteworthy because AWS typically designs its architecture to withstand the failure of a single zone, not coordinated strikes across multiple sites simultaneously. and Israeli attacks on Iran, which prompted Tehran to retaliate with missile and drone strikes on Gulf states hosting U.S. AWS reported that most customers restored operations in other regions using backups when available, but data stored exclusively in the damaged footprint without an external copy was completely lost.