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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by mitxela on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:06AM (#49736967)
Amazon never said you had to mirror your data across multiple regions to prevent Amazon-caused data loss.
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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by Brigand on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:44AM (#49737211)
It’s not really Amazon-caused
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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by mitxela on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:31AM (#49737567)
Yes it is, they didn't have adequate redundancy for this extremely foreseeable event.
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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by expedition32 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:37AM (#49737990)
War?! In my Middle East? Preposterous.
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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by IAmBroom on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:21PM (#49743777)
Negligence is not malicious action.

Both are bad, but having a missile hit your shop is never going to mean you are causing violence.

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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by mitxela on Friday September 18, 2026 @09:44PM (#49762510)
But you are causing your customers to lose data
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