AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good
Two AWS facilities in the country were hit by drones back in March as Iran retaliated against US-Israeli strikes on its territory.AWS says it continues to work on recovering resources in the Region, including some hosted in the other affected Availability Zones (mec1-az1 and mec1-az3). Each Zone consists of one or more discrete datacenters with independent power, cooling, and network connectivity.AWS recommends distributing applications and resources across multiple Availability Zones to withstand the loss of a single location. That approach cannot protect against a Region-wide failure, however.
- ▪Two AWS facilities in the country were hit by drones back in March as Iran retaliated against US-Israeli strikes on its territory.AWS says it continues to work on recovering resources in the Region, including some hosted in the other affect
- ▪Each Zone consists of one or more discrete datacenters with independent power, cooling, and network connectivity.AWS recommends distributing applications and resources across multiple Availability Zones to withstand the loss of a single loc
- ▪That approach cannot protect against a Region-wide failure, however.
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