AWS says data hosted exclusively in its Bahrain region and one UAE availability zone cannot be restored, converting a prolonged outage into a permanent-loss event.
What changed
The original physical attacks were known, but AWS’s new determination establishes that some customer resources and data are permanently unrecoverable. AWS says data hosted exclusively in its Bahrain region and one UAE availability zone cannot be restored, converting a prolonged outage into a permanent-loss event.
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