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- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand.
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 update posted on September 15. The development was first reported by Reuters and suggests that the Iranian strikes inflicted catastrophic damage on the data centers.
Customer data was irretrievably lost in one of three AWS availability zones in the United Arab Emirates region, specifically the mec1-az2 availability zone. Each availability zone is serviced by one or more Amazon data centers.
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That’s one way to delete your Amazon account I suppose.
Oh no, … anyway, don’t have Amazon account
I’m sure Alexa still has it.
Oh no. Anyway…
Finally! Data getting “lost” instead of “stolen”. /s
ik hope my data was deleted
kinda surprising it didn’t happen earlier
“We don’t need our own backups. The cloud takes care of everything.”
People who don’t understand what they are buying almost always find out the hard way.
Do they have a Go Fund Me or something I can donate to or something to keep them rolling?
Neither Amazon or Islamic Republic of Iran need your money, friend. Buy yourself a nice hat in stead.
Y’all really need to normalize downvoting serious replies to jokes. Just because this reply is agreeable doesn’t make it sap the joy out of the conversation any less.
And get it today, with Amazon Prime!
I would but they lost my… custom. By being evil.
Me: “please delete my data”
Amazon: “Lol no”
Iran “I got you babe”The only way to get them to delete your data.
“It’s the only way to be sure.”
Nuke it from orbit.
So like… the opposite of a data breach, the headlines I am used to reading about “customer data”? Hmmm… Ok.
the cloud is much more secure because your data is decentralized
- Every major cloud provider when advertising their services over on-prem soloutions.
I mean you’re supposed to use multi-region backups
* But only if you pay for the most redundant storage, which cost all the money.
Yes, storing PBs of tape in collocations is sooooooo much cheaper 🙄
AWS sucks for a lot of reasons none of which are this .
Extra infrastructure costs extra…. Who would have thought?
You have complete choice whether you centralise your data or not.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if a bombing on US territory was cheered if it was an AWS data center (or Meta, xAI, etc). Hell, Iran could probably even find US citizens for sabotage at this point if they just ask, lol.
I expect Iran already hires Americans for unorganized sabotage, I know both Iran and Russia utilises Telegram to hire teenagers “torpedoes” as they’re called among mobsters.
It’s a fully gangster technique, but it’s effective. One example would be when the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen had two kids attempt to throw a grenade their way in 2024 - It’s proven to be related to Foxtrot (the largest Swedish organised crime syndicate), which Iran has influence on through one of the leaders living in Iran
You have to be a special kind of brainwashed believe that story about Iran hiring children
Nobody will give their life for this, you must use drones for sabotage
Just give any American $1000 and they will be happy to do that.
Lol, I would to be honest. Short the stock for 10k with big leverage, pay 10 americans 1k each to attack a datacenter, get 50k back. But they won’t
Aaaaand this will be the last we hear of ElectricVocalist
Oh no, not amazons marketing data!
