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

530 points · 452 comments · berkeleyjunk

  1. michael-bey · · focus · HN ↗
    What a nightmare scenario to tabletop. How do you even begin to recover from something like this?
    1. NegativeLatency · · focus · HN ↗
      Backups in a different region?
      1. noir_lord · · focus · HN ↗
        Works unless local laws specifically block you doing that which they do for some classes of data in some countries.

        Multi-cloud in the same country (if that exists in the country and is far enough apart) maybe.

        1. krick · · focus · HN ↗
          I wonder what exactly these laws prohibit. Like, does it apply to a fully encrypted cold-copy on Amazon Glacier? If you don't store the encryption key outside of UAE, I'd say this isn't even the same data that gets transferred to the third party, it's just some random blob. But I have no idea if the authorities of that country would agree and if it's even actually enforced for that matter, or if it's one of those laws that actually cause problems only if you follow them.
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