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.
To save them from this desaster, backups would have been enough.
Failover and service availability are nice, but for this use case not really necessary.
If OOP had had regular backups to their PC and nothing else, it would have at least been pretty easy to rebuild everything on the same cloud provider and if they (understandably) didn’t want to trust AWS again, they’d at least have a basis for rebuilding on another provider’s cloud.