Amazon Web Services has confirmed that some customer data housed in its war-torn Middle East data centers is permanently unrecoverable, marking what appears to be the first time military action has caused irreversible data loss at a major cloud provider This article explores data centers aws. . Half a year after Iranian drone strikes crippled multiple Amazon data centers, the company has acknowledged the permanent loss of information stored in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
In an AWS Health Dashboard update posted on September 15, the cloud giant stated 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 stated that they are continuing to work on recovering regional resources and restoring 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 ultimately overwhelmed recovery efforts. The admission is noteworthy because AWS typically designs its architecture to withstand the failure of a single zone, rather than coordinated strikes across multiple sites simultaneously.
AWS advised that most customers were able to restore operations in other regions using backups, but data stored exclusively in the damaged footprint with no external copy was completely lost.
