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 catastrophic 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 AWS update described ongoing work to replace “affected infrastructure” and promised to update customers on a restoration of services in the coming months.
Six mois après les frappes de drones iraniens qui ont mis hors service plusieurs centres de données d’Amazon, la société américaine a reconnu la perte définitive de certaines données clients hébergées à Bahreïn et aux Émirats arabes unis. Amazon Web Services s’est dit « incapable de rétablir l’accès aux ressources et aux données » hébergées dans certains des centres de données endommagés, selon une mise à jour du tableau de bord AWS publiée le 15 septembre. Cette information, initialement rapportée par Reuters, laisse penser que les frappes iraniennes ont causé des dommages importants à ses services de renseignement.…
