Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Customer data was irretrievably lost in one of three AWS availability zones in the United Arab Emirates region, specifically the mec1-az2 availability zone.
The Iranian drones first struck the Amazon data centers in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on March 1 in the opening days of the ongoing war that began with US-Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28.
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The destruction was even more widespread for the data centers in the Bahrain region.
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Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Amazon Web Services was “unable to restore access to the resources and data” hosted in some of the war-damaged data centers, according to an AWS dashboard update posted on September 15. The development was first reported by Reuters and suggests that the Iranian strikes inflicted damage on the data centers.
Customer data was irretrievably lost in one of three AWS availability zones in the United Arab Emirates region, specifically the mec1-az2 availability zone. Each availability zone is serviced by one or more Amazon data centers.
The company is still working on “recovering regional resources” and restoring resources hosted in the other two availability zones in the United Arab Emirates.
The Iranian drones first struck the Amazon data centers in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on March 1 in the opening days of the ongoing war that began with US-Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28.
On July 24, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched yet another strike using missiles that specifically targeted a remaining Amazon data center structure in Bahrain.
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