Your cloud survived everything except the real world
Great lyric, lousy data retention policy.Amazon Web Services said last week that war damage to its Middle East infrastructure had permanently destroyed resources and data hosted exclusively in its now rather badly named Bahrain Availability Zones. The damage overwhelmed the resilience built into the region. Customers without copies elsewhere no longer had their data.
- ▪Great lyric, lousy data retention policy.Amazon Web Services said last week that war damage to its Middle East infrastructure had permanently destroyed resources and data hosted exclusively in its now rather badly named Bahrain Availability
- ▪The damage overwhelmed the resilience built into the region.
- ▪Customers without copies elsewhere no longer had their data.
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