Re:AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
by mcv on Sunday August 03, 2025 @07:00AM
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It probably wasn't even hostility; it's just that accounts is also an infrastructure component. And when that fails, everything fails. Tying everything to a single account creates a single point of failure.
It's one of the reasons I don't use my Google account for everything (another is that I don't want them to know everything about me), and I strongly dislike Google's and Microsoft's attempts to force their accounts on me for everything.
Re:AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
by darkwater on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:17AM
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If you have very important data for you, and you don't pay very high bills to AWS, you should really have at least a cold backup somewhere else (even on your own hardware).
If you have a big cloud account, paying big money every month, at least with AWS you are in a pretty safe spot, even if people will say a different thing here.
And if you have a similar horror story with a tens/hundred of thousands of dollars (or more) monthly AWS invoice, please speak, I'm very curious to learn what happened.
The architecture was built assuming infrastructure within AWS might fail. What I didn’t plan for was the provider itself turning hostile, skipping their own retention policy, and treating verification as a deletion trigger.