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1. Art9681 · 1789594293 · focus · HN ↗

   No disaster recovery plan? No offsite backups? Someone failed to applied the most basic principles that have existed for decades.

   1. advisedwang · 1789595264 · focus · HN ↗

      That depends on the data. If this is EBS or single-AZ S3, then from Amazon's perspective this was correct. Backup responsibly (for any data that does need to be backed up) lives with the customer, and Amazon has no way of knowing about that. EBS data data is unrecoverable, and that's what's reported.

      Now if this was multi-AZ S3 or whatever then this would be significant.

      The article does not tell us what products were impacted.

      1. deathanatos · 1789603648 · focus · HN ↗

         > EBS data data (sic) is unrecoverable, and that's what's reported.

         I don't see where this is reported? TFA does not mention EBS. In fact, TFA seems to be nigh content-free, beyond "AWS (allegedly, and is uncited) says they cannot restore some data."

         > The article does not tell us what products were impacted.

         … right … which conflicts with EBS being what's reported …

         (I would agree with your point that if EBS, or some AZ-level data was lost, then, yeah, that's the contract.)

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