AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Facilities Struck by Iran

Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by rob74 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:27AM (#49737107)

Especially with Amazon, who are well known for squeezing every last bit of profit from their employees, contractors etc., it doesn't really sound surprising. "Offsite backups?! Sure, you could have had that if you had found the right page in the AWS console and if you would have paid 50% extra!"

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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by whizzter on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:32AM (#49737960)

Perhaps, cheapness is always an factor but I'm potentially reading it as the customers perhaps not wanting data to move outside of the country and with AWS only have one datacenter in said country produced this result.

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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by sharemywin on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:17AM (#49741160)

but the general assumption is your data isn't going to get lost if you use Amazon. so once the trust is gone it's gone.

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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by andwur on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:36AM (#49738817)

Oh sorry, you picked "AWS Backup" but you actually needed to use "Backup AWS" to solve that problem. Perhaps hop on a call with our sales engineering and cost magnification teams to guide you to a better, more solutioned, tomorrow?

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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by xxs on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:13AM (#49739121)

I sounded all legit until the comma after "solutioned". I suspect that might be a fake.

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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by eptcyka on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:42AM (#49739365)

It all depends on how *off* off-site really is. You know, *off* isn’t a binary, it is a spectrum.

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