alt Hacker NewsIn this case AWS did not save you. AWS is supposed to be resilient against AZ failures within a region. Iran destroyed all AZs at once, so all the data was lost. If you had a hard drive in your office, either directly serving your project or as an off-site backup, you still have your data. In the end, was it worth paying several times as much for AWS to provide durability for you, only to have them lose the data anyway?
You seem to have misunderstood. What you said is exactly my argument. I am with you :).
The parent commentator is under the illusion that AWS automatically means security and scale and reliability.
I was merely pointing out to him that Iranian attacks must serve as a wake up call for him.