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.
JFC this poor dev.
Luckily many of my jobs or clients don’t like AWS and have gone elsewhere. One of my projects is self-hosted (with an off-site backup).
I wish this person the best moving forward, I didn’t recommend AWS before, but I’ll definitely make sure to push against it now.