Reports circulating about Iranian drone strikes on Amazon data centers in the Middle East describe permanent customer data loss — but the claims remain unverified and could not be confirmed against AWS's official service health records or independent reporting.

According to the accounts, AWS later acknowledged that it was "unable to restore access to the resources and data" in some war-damaged facilities, with data said to be irretrievably lost in one availability zone in the United Arab Emirates and across all three zones in Bahrain.

The same accounts attribute a statement to AWS saying the damage "spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand," and claim the company is still replacing affected infrastructure.

No verifiable AWS dashboard entry, status page archive, or dated statement has been produced to support these claims, and they should be treated as unconfirmed.

Source: Ars Technica