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Iranian strikes on AWS facilities left customer data beyond recovery in Bahrain, UAE
Iranian drone strikes on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in the Middle East six months prior caused permanent data loss in the Bahrain region and one availability zone in the UAE region. AWS confirmed in September updates that affected customer data and resources cannot be recovered. The incident underscores infrastructure resilience challenges in conflict-adjacent geographies.
Why it matters: Organizations with workloads, backups, or disaster recovery in AWS Middle East regions face permanent data loss and must audit their data placement strategy and cross-region redundancy immediately.
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