{"id":276138,"date":"2026-09-16T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:40:11","slug":"iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Web Services was \u201cunable to restore access to the resources and data\u201d hosted in some of the war-damaged data centers, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/health.aws.amazon.com\/health\/status\">AWS dashboard update<\/a> posted on September 15. The development was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/amazons-aws-is-unable-restore-access-bahrain-one-uae-cloud-data-zone-after-war-2026-09-15\">reported by Reuters<\/a> and suggests that the Iranian strikes inflicted catastrophic damage on the data centers.<\/p>\n<p>Customer data was irretrievably lost in one of three <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/global-infrastructure\/latest\/regions\/aws-availability-zones.html\">AWS availability zones<\/a> in the United Arab Emirates region, specifically the mec1-az2 availability zone. Each availability zone is serviced by one or more Amazon data centers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/09\/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/09\/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. 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