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A cloud region reportedly lost data to war damage

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A column reports that AWS said war damage in the Middle East permanently destroyed resources and data hosted only in its Bahrain Availability Zones. Under the reported account, customers without copies in another location could no longer recover that data.

A cloud region reportedly lost data to war damage

Regional redundancy and an independent backup elsewhere

The strange part is the gap between redundancy inside one cloud region and a truly independent backup elsewhere: systems designed to keep running through ordinary failures may still have nowhere to fail over when the physical region itself is damaged. The column also argues that tight storage supply could make maintaining extra copies harder.

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