Wired, CircleID and wire coverage widen distribution of the story
4 Sep 16 10:02 PM · 7d ago · 6 articles · 15 posts · 24 comments · 6 sources · development 4 of 5
Wired, CircleID and other outlets republish and extend coverage of AWS's admission, framing it as the cloud provider acknowledging its infrastructure was never designed to withstand actual war.
“Amazon Web Services didn't design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can't recover what's been lost.”
WiredAmazon 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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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 2 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Help Net Security, 7d ago · also Wall Street Journal, CircleID, Ars Technica
3 more headlines
- AWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring Wall Street Journal · 7d ago
- AWS Says Iran Strikes Caused Permanent Customer Data Loss in Bahrain and UAE CircleID · 7d ago
- Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data Ars Technica · 7d ago
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first by TechSpot, 7d ago
What people said 24 voices · best of 33 · verbatim
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There is no cloud. It's just a computer somewhere else. Time get out a buy your own backup. Whether it's a flash drive/USB or hard drive. Perform your own cloud duties, because if you leave it up to someone else, you have lost control.
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Clearly since the MBAs took over AWS standards are not anymore what they used to be. That marketing guy should not be talking to the press, as he does not have the skills, and if somebody happens to say...our data center we wont lose any data if we have an issue, without qualifying it will depend on what quality of service, and usage of our…
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Yeah, there is a lot of uninformed opinions around here. Sure there are some tech bros that lost a bunch stuff, but there are also victims like small regional companies that lost their data and the services they hosted. They just live there and have to make a living in this now digital world. Data centers have been around for dozens of years and…
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Turns out the cloud has a street address, and it was within drone range. AWS told Bahrain customers that any systems and data held only in its Bahrain region (me-south-1) are gone. Drone and missile damage in March and April knocked out multiple availability zones there, and one zone in UAE. Data c...
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Ah, les mollahs ont trouvé la solution aux fuites de données : bombarder les centres de données https:// arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0 9/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data/ # FrancePassoire
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The interesting thing is that 10³ $ drone crippled a 10 ⁹ $ infrastructure, that’s a 10 ⁶ leverage.
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me (Middle East) ├── me-south-1 (Bahrain) DOWN since 2026-04 │ ├── mes1-az1 me (Middle East) ├── me-south-1 (Bahrain) DOWN since 2026-04 │ ├── mes1-az1 DOWN │ │ └── mes1-mct1-az1 (Oman, Muscat) │ ├── mes1-az2 DOWN since 2026-03-01 │ └── mes1-az3 DOWN ├── me-central-1 (United Arab Emirates) │ ├── mec1-az1 │ ├── mec1-az2 DOWN since 2026-03-01 │ └──…
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This is something that affected my company, we used to have offerings in the UAE region but now obviously don't. Every other region worldwide is still fine though, so obviously if data was replicated to those the data would have been fine. It's incredibly unlikely for multiple regions to get fully destroyed at the same time if they're in different…
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Boeiend verhaal, ook in relatie tot kwetsbaarheid van onze data / datacenters https:// arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0 9/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data/ # datacenters # cloud
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The data center layout should look something like this: me (Middle East) ├── me-south-1 (Bahrain) DOWN since 2026-04 │ ├── mes1-az1 DOWN │ │ └── mes1-mct1-az1 (Oman, Muscat) ??? │ ├── mes1-az2 DOWN since 2026-03-01 │ └── mes1-az3 DOWN ├── me-central-1 (United Arab Emirates) │ ├── mec1-az1 │ ├── mec1-az2 DOWN since 2026-03-01 │ └── mec1-az3 DOWN…
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Oh wow, that is so sad that unrecoverable data was stored there and not backed up anywhere else. Could have been anything there: Epstein files, records of the Venezuelan looting, logs of the billions of sold, not-yet-purchased securities by Citadel, whoopsie
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Found this interesting: 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/
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Unless you have a synchronous like setup where you don’t acknowledge data writes unless the remote has aconowledged them first, you will lose data in case your datacenter is hit by a warhead.Now, there are a few things to consider:- AWS best practices recommend multiple AZs for workloads and cross-region backups for things like databases and other…
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Yeah, because your towering intellect managing used consumer gear is going to have greater data protection.
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There's something reassuring in this for me.There's a lot of magic & handwaving from hyperscalers like AWS about redundancy. I always wondered about some of the engineering to make this absolutely (and literally) bullet proof. At the end of the day most of their answers when you push hard enough involved paying 2-3x to run everything across…
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11.3 Force Majeure. Except for payment obligations, neither party nor any of their affiliates will be liable for any delay or failure to perform any obligation under this Agreement where the delay or failure results from any cause beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, labor disputes or other industrial disturbances, electrical or…
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My personal bet is there's an 80% chance this is caused by some internal bootstrapping problem that they've messed up. AIUI all the main cloud vendors are in trouble here. The automation project I work on is expressly designed to help folks solve this DR/bootstrapping problem. Soo many people get this wrong. Of course missiles don't help things…
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When doing Disaster Recovery (DR) planning as a SRE in the New York City area, I sometimes use the phrase "Hurricane Sandy 2" to describe an event so big that it knocks out the power/compute/etc for an entire region.I may just start using AWS Bahrain 2 as an additional example.
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1. This wasn’t a strike on a single data center, it was strikes on many data centers.2. Since that interview, AWS has started selling versions of their storage that isn’t redundant. It is not surprising that when AWS sells non-redundant storage that some data is not recoverable.
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I think people are overthinking this. I'm the first one to criticize AWS (I run a competitor, carolinacloud.io) but I don't think we should hold it against them when they lost data due to their hard drives being physically bombed.
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So many AWS simps in this thread that don't actually understand how AWS scrimped out and fucked their customers. You can't all suck up to AWS at the same time, you need to serialize.
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"..even if something happens only once in a billion requests, that means it happens multiple times per day within S3."but one in a trillion...
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There are many regulations over there which prevent data from leaving the country.Sometimes those rules can have serious consequences.
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