Amazon Says Cloud Infrastructure In Bahrain, UAE ‘Beyond Saving’

Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it cannot restore access to its cloud-computing facility in Bahrain or one of three data-hosting zones in the UAE due to the extensive damage caused by Iranian retaliatory strikes, Reuters reported on 15 September.

“The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand,” AWS reported in its status update seen by Reuters.

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  1. Sure are a lot of force majeure events taking place these days. The fragility of systems – and inability to restore them after large scale failure – is really going to start having a material effect on things.

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