AWS loses data during simultaneous attacks in Iran

Amazon Web Services failed to recover some data damaged during targeted attacks.

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Redundancy across availability zones proved insufficient against near-simultaneous strikes.

This incident exposes a new vulnerability for the cloud industry.

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