AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Facilities Struck by Iran
AWS has acknowledged that it cannot restore some data from its Middle East facilities after they were struck by Iran. The admission raises questions about the durability guarantees for services like S3, which promises 11 nines of durability, and whether data stored across multiple availability zones is truly safe. Commenters note that while S3 is a global service, other services like EBS may be more vulnerable.
They guaranteed 11 9's durability, didn't they?
- rishikeshs
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.
- Art9681
No disaster recovery plan? No offsite backups? Someone failed to applied the most basic principles that have existed for decades.
- wewewedxfgdf
"Use the cloud" they say.
"It's the only way." the true believers say.
"You can't run your own computer systems.", they say.
"Trust us.", they say.
“No one ever got fired for buying IBM.”
Wildberries has nothing to do with AWS.
"Massive centralisation of computing can never go wrong."
"We don't need to host our own systems, it's all safe in one of 20 global data centers."
etc etc
- rvz
Backup both locally and everywhere no matter what.
- burnt-resistor
50%+ of companies that lose all of their data go out of business in 6 months.
DR/BCP costs are readily justified by doing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA).. budget up to some fraction of risk cost * risk probability.