{"rewrite":{"id":"r_96d9b5dae109a19e2f41cf9c","clusterId":"c_c30424bd7dc456b7c8537d0f","slug":"aws-confirms-permanent-data-loss-after-drone-attacks-on-middle-east-data-centers","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"AWS Confirms Permanent Data Loss After Drone Attacks on Middle East Data Centers","summary":"Amazon Web Services says data hosted only in the availability zone called mec1-az2 was permanently lost after drone attacks damaged three facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in March 2026. AWS also says it is working on recovery for mec1-az1 and mec1-az3, with no prospect of restoration at the time of the announcement. Billing for the Middle East region has stopped.","whyItMatters":"Six months after the attacks, AWS is telling customers that isolation to a single availability zone turned an outage into unrecoverable loss, which puts the redundancy assumption at the center of how the region gets rebuilt.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eData distributed across other availability zones escaped damage, but resources hosted only in mec1-az2 cannot be recovered. Recovery work at mec1-az1 and mec1-az3 continues, and AWS says there was no prospect of restoration when it made the announcement. The company has stopped billing customers in the Middle East region and is urging them to migrate data elsewhere. Iran\u0026#39;s Revolutionary Guard judged that the affected data center supported military and intelligence activities, according to the report.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Billing for the Middle East region has stopped, but AWS has no restoration path for mec1-az1 or mec1-az3. Data written to only one availability zone had no copy to fall back on.","twitterPost":"Billing for the Middle East region stopped. AWS has no restoration path for mec1-az1 or mec1-az3.","threadsPost":"AWS stopped billing for the Middle East region, but has no restoration path for mec1-az1 or mec1-az3. Data written to a single availability zone had no copy elsewhere. The permanent loss in mec1-az2 is what happens when redundancy is assumed rather than verified.","newsletterBlurb":"Amazon Web Services acknowledged that some customer data is permanently lost after drone attacks damaged three data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in March 2026. Resources hosted only in the availability zone mec1-az2 cannot be recovered, while recovery work at mec1-az1 and mec1-az3 continues. AWS has stopped billing customers in the Middle East region and is urging them to migrate their data to other regions.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"GIGAZINE\",\"url\":\"https://gigazine.net/news/20260917-aws-middle-east-data-center-unable-to-restore/\",\"title\":\"Iranian attack on Amazon data centers causes permanent loss of customer data\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4628,"outputTokens":564,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789613965,"createdAt":"2026-09-17T02:54:31.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-17T02:58:22.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-17T02:58:22.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_c30424bd7dc456b7c8537d0f","canonicalTitle":"イランによるAmazonのデータセンターへの攻撃により顧客データが永久に失われる","representativeArticleId":"a_f6579b0627ba93c6b516e646","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[\"Amazon Web Services\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"other\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-17T02:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-17T02:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-17T02:58:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"GIGAZINE","url":"https://gigazine.net/news/20260917-aws-middle-east-data-center-unable-to-restore/","title":"イランによるAmazonのデータセンターへの攻撃により顧客データが永久に失われる"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":["Amazon Web Services"],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"other","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}