If it happened to "them" it could happen to us. You never know when the next war will be.
Yeah, but the risks are massive. Amazon wrote off its Dubai data center, it's a complete loss.
This is a catastrophic event that you can't mitigate except with cold storage offline.
It's a total loss only for people that were too cheap to pay for multi-regional data storage. Most people balk at monthly S3 fees, so willingly paying double the cost is a non-starter for those led by the bean counters. Disaster recovery is a known thing that should not be blamed on the loss of a single data center in a stupid war. AWS even has automation of duplicating selected data to another region.
Only a loss if you didn't have cross region backup
> just do that thing again that can result in catastrophic loss, as demonstrated in practice