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Amazon never said you had to mirror your data across multiple regions to prevent Amazon-caused data loss.

It’s not really Amazon-caused

Yes it is, they didn't have adequate redundancy for this extremely foreseeable event (military site getting hit by missiles).

Negligence is not malicious action.

Both are bad, but having a missile hit your shop is never going to mean you are causing violence.

But you are causing your customers to lose data

War?! In my Middle East? Preposterous.