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.
Eh, the author definitely has more responsibility than he makes out. He’s fully aware that it wasn’t suitable as a backup for all of his stuff (like the book he was writing and all the tutorials), but acts like that shouldn’t matter because he wanted to use it that way to make his desktop workflow better.