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AWS loses data in Middle East regions due to wartime infrastructure damage

AWS experienced full data loss in Bahrain and unrecoverable data loss in parts of UAE, attributed to prior wartime infrastructure damage affecting cloud services.

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Highlights cloud resilience risks and real-world vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure during geopolitical instability, raising concerns about data recovery and service availability.

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@LinkTechnlogiesIranian strikes on AWS data centers caused the permanent loss of some customer data in Bahrain and the UAE. Amazon says the damage exceeded what its regional systems were designed to survive. AWS says data in one UAE availability zone could not be recovered, while all three zones in Bahrain were affected. Customers with remote backups or workloads moved elsewhere were better protected.

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@LinkTechnlogiesIranian strikes on AWS data centers caused the permanent loss of some customer data in Bahrain and the UAE. Amazon says the damage exceeded what its regional systems were designed to survive. AWS says data in one UAE availability zone could not be recovered, while all three zones in Bahrain were affected. Customers with remote backups or workloads moved elsewhere were better protected.

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