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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by Betelbuddy on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:24AM (#49740424)
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..."

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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by mitxela on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:05PM (#49748959)
Is a disk being hit by a missile not a disk failure? Someone should inform the RAID controller those disks are actually fine, then.
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