3 verified briefings on Disaster Recovery. Each story includes a plain-English summary, why it matters, and the concrete action engineering teams should take.
AWS has confirmed it cannot recover customer data from a damaged availability zone in the UAE and the entire Bahrain region. The damage, caused by conflict, was so severe it overwhelmed the cloud provider's multi-AZ redundancy designs.
A public TV station lost access to 70 years of archives after its cloud vendor failed. The data is safe on servers in a third-party data center, but a contractual dispute means no one can legally access it.
Amazon Cognito now automatically copies user data to a backup region. This means if one AWS region fails, your application can still authenticate users from another, improving reliability and simplifying disaster recovery for developers.