Old AWS executive quote on 'bulletproof' redundancy resurfaces
3 Sep 16 6:15 PM · 7d ago · 13 posts · 8 comments · 4 sources · development 3 of 5
Commenters circulate a prior CBS Sunday Morning interview in which an AWS leader claimed customers wouldn't notice if a data center were blown up, now seen as contradicted by events.
“Yeah, you wouldn't notice. I mean, we might be a bit upset, but you wouldn't notice!”
AWS executive (Wood)Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud provider whose data centers were struckIran Military actor behind the strikesAWS executive (Wood) AWS leader quoted in prior CBS interviewAffected AWS customers Businesses using the Bahrain/UAE regions
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Hey Iran. Your real enemy is historical student loan data for Americans just trying to get by..
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Iran Strikes Leave Amazon’s Cloud Infrastructure in Bahrain and UAE Irreparably Damaged # technology AWS reports irreparable damage to cloud infrastructure in Bahrain and UAE amid Iranian strikes, with Bahrain facilities affecting multiple availability zones and UAE’s mec1-az2 zone impacted. AWS says restoration is not feasible in affected zones…
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This interview with an AWS leader isn’t aging well, from CBS Sunday morning:Pogue asked, "I don't mean to give anyone ideas, but let's say I figured out that one of these unmarked buildings was an AWS data center, and I blew it up. Are you saying that it's so backed up and redundant that you probably wouldn't notice?" Wood replied, "Yeah, you…
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Maybe we should stop putting US military bases near things Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data https:// arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0 9/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data/ # Iran # Amazon # DataCenters # Data # Tech
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They say "some" data, i wonder what percentage that really is. I haven't seen pictures but I find it hard to imagine all of me-south-1 was completely leveled to the point where's there's just nothing left. On the other hand, if you have 100 rows of racks and then randomly take out a contiguous 10% across both rows and columns it may be…
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That would be legitimately fantastic if my data that was included in that loss! I'd be thrilled to know Amazon no longer had any info about me! https:// arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0 9/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data/
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That is actually surprising to me. Claims like that are pretty common, they make sense and they should be true, so even though I don't really know AWS (/Backblaze/Azure/whatever) redundancy planning in enough detail, I used to trust them. It's really worrying when they outright say it will be ok, and then a week later it turns out to be not ok.
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Confirmado por ellos mismos, esta es la única forma de conseguir que Amazon respete la GDPR. https:// arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0 9/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data/ # noticias # iran # amazon # privacidad
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I think this is due to the data residency requirements in UAE. I'm working with a client in the health space and the government requirements requires me to store data only in UAE! Tried with AWS but they were not allowing any new instances and I had to go with Azure.
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https:// arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0 9/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data/ shit has gone kinetic
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Hey but that's exactly as per design. It is the customer's responsibility to store stuff elsewhere as DR backup, not AWS.
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No disaster recovery plan? No offsite backups? Someone failed to applied the most basic principles that have existed for decades.
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I wonder if they'll start adding an underground bunker to new data centers so you can put an S3 replica there?
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What a nightmare scenario to tabletop. How do you even begin to recover from something like this?
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