You are confusing the concepts, and applying the 11 nines to the wrong problem.

Durability is about: "If I successfully store an object in S3, how unlikely is S3 to permanently lose that object because of storage failures?"

It does not answer: "Will I be able to access that object, after a rain of Shahab-1 or Shahab-2 burn all data centers in the 3 availability regions across which my S3 bucket is spread out..."

Is a disk being hit by a missile not a disk failure? Someone should inform the RAID controller those disks are actually fine, then.

Eleven nines covers ordinary infrastructure failures, not acts of war that physically destroy the underlying facilities.

It's similar to any engineered artifact, like a skyscraper. They have a structural safety factor that defines their resilience to failures that the system is designed to tolerate, it doesn't make them immune to missile strikes.

This is a normal failure mode in American military facilities in the Middle East. Whoever designed an American military facility in the middle east and did not intend for it to withstand missile attacks was incompetent.

You think you can cover up your misunderstanding of how reliability numbers work with zealotry?