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AWS's sudden removal of a 10-year account and all of its data: lessons learned

The Tech industry has successfully convinced almost everyone that moving to the Cloud is the best option for them and in a lot of cases it is true. If you are a startup or trying out new idea’s or a small shot that doesn’t have a full time IT staff then it is more cost efficient and quicker to run everything on the cloud so that you don’t have to worry about it.

If you are a startup or trying out new idea’s or a small shot that doesn’t have a full time IT staff then it is more cost efficient and quicker to run everything on the cloud so that you don’t have to worry about it. Hacker News and Reddit are filled with threads where people have suddenly been locked out of their accounts and are desperate to get through to someone that can restore access. The latest instance of this is where Seuros who is a very prominent Open Source developer had their 10 year old account on AWS deleted without warning with no possibility of recovering the data.

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