Iranian Drone Strikes Cause Permanent Loss of Amazon Data
Around half a year ago, Iranian drone strikes damaged multiple Amazon data centers, causing significant disruptions to customers' access to their hosted resources and data. The US tech company has now acknowledged that some customer data hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates was permanently lost due to the damage.
The issue primarily affected AWS availability zones in the United Arab Emirates region, specifically mec1-az2, which is serviced by one or more Amazon data centers. According to an AWS dashboard update posted on September 15, customer data was irretrievably lost in this zone.
The company is still working on recovering regional resources and restoring access to resources hosted in the other two availability zones in the United Arab Emirates region. However, in the Bahrain region, Amazon stated that it was unable to restore access to resources and data across all three availability zones due to the extensive damage.