Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer Data
Ars Technica reports: Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Amazon Web Services was "unable to restore access to the resources and data" hosted in some of the war-damaged data centers, according to an AWS dashboard…
Half a year after Iranian drone strikes crippled Amazon's data centers in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, the tech giant has confirmed the irrevocable loss of some customer data. Amazon Web Services (AWS) could not restore access to the resources and information stored in certain war-damaged data centers, as reported by AWS and initially highlighted by Reuters on September 15.
The devastating impact of the Iranian attacks is evident in one of the three availability zones in the UAE region, specifically mec1-az2, where customer data was entirely lost. AWS continues to work on restoring regional resources and recovering data from the remaining two availability zones in the UAE. However, the damage to the Bahrain-based data centers was even more severe, as AWS could not recover access to resources and data from all three availability zones.
This widespread destruction surpassed the capabilities of AWS's regional and multi-AZ services, forcing the company to suspend customer billing in the affected regions. In the aftermath of the Iranian strikes in March, AWS had urged its customers to migrate resources to alternative cloud regions and utilize remote backups to recover inaccessible resources.
Additionally, AWS offered $150 million in customer credits to offset the initial damage caused by the strikes.
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