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AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

530 points · 452 comments · berkeleyjunk

  1. Art9681 · · focus · HN ↗
    No disaster recovery plan? No offsite backups? Someone failed to applied the most basic principles that have existed for decades.
    1. kjs3 · · focus · HN ↗
      You apparently don't do business out here with the unwashed masses where "whadda mean with all that nonsense? It's cloud...it's by definition safe[1][2]!" is an all too common preconception.

      [1] That's a quote, including the Boston accent. [2] The only one I had that was better was a C-level who said "why are you asking for all this money for security in Azure. It's Microsoft so it's already secure.". That, too, is a quote.

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