After 10 years as an AWS customer and open-source contributor, they deleted my account and all data with zero warning. Here's how AWS's 'verification' process became a digital execution, and why you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything.
  • miskOPEnglish
    -2•8 days ago

    Before anyone says “you put all your eggs in one basket,” let me be clear: I didn’t. I put them in one provider, with what should have been bulletproof redundancy:

    • P03 LockeEnglish
      11•8 days ago

      “I put my carton of eggs in the fridge, and the fridge fell over, breaking all of my eggs.”

      • miskOPEnglish
        -2•8 days ago

        „I put my carton of eggs in two Amazon fridges on two different continents”

        • P03 LockeEnglish
          4•8 days ago

          Well, it seem damned easy for Amazon to just delete the fridges, so it being on two different continents really didn’t matter, did it?

          • miskOPEnglish
            1•8 days ago

            Yes, that’s what this blog post is about :)

    • oshuEnglish
      8•8 days ago

      The first rule of uptime is never have only one of something critical, including providers.