AWS cannot restore its Bahrain region or one UAE zone six months after the strikes
Amazon Web Services has told customers it cannot restore access to its cloud facility in Bahrain or one of its three data hosting zones in the UAE, six months after drone strikes hit its sites in the Gulf.
The explanation matters because it shows the limits of the resilience built into cloud infrastructure.
“The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand,” the company said.
Reuters reported the statement on Tuesday. Availability Zones are a key part of how cloud providers offer reliability. They are separate facilities with their own power and cooling systems, but close enough to operate as part of the same region.
The idea is that if one facility fails, the others keep running. Customers can also spread their systems across several zones to reduce the risk of an outage.
Amazon is now saying that...
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