Amazon Web Services confirmed the permanent loss of customer data following drone attacks on its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The incidents occurred in March, April, and July. The damage impacted a major AI project, leading to the suspension of a lease agreement with OpenAI.
The AWS Health Dashboard reports that the mec1-az2 zone was completely destroyed with no possibility of data recovery due to the lack of off-site backups. The mec1-az3 zone sustained severe damage, with engineers currently attempting to restore infrastructure. AWS has advised clients to migrate workloads to other regions.
Separately, researcher Carter Leffen used the GPT-6 Astra model to decrypt a German military radio message from 1941. The message, part of the CryptoCellar collection, had resisted decryption attempts since 2005. The model required approximately ten hours of processing time to find the solution, with final verification completed in September.
