A software engineer has warned against trusting cloud data storage services in a painstakingly detailed blog post detailing their own “complete digital annihilation” at the hands of AWS admins. Developer Abdelkader Boudih, pen name Seuros, says they had been a fee-paying AWS subscriber for a decade, with the cloud service becoming a firm part of their workflow. Suffice to say, the developer’s long-standing relationship with AWS has now ended acrimoniously.
Protip: Never use the console or CLI.
Just use CDK. Test deleting and redeploying. Script the whole deployment process so it can be updated multiple times a day against different accounts by different people. Never worry about fat-fingering nothing.
That sounds even more reasonable to me!
What does “CDK” refer to?
Cloud Development Kit: https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/
Ah, so just adding the irony of AWS not even using its own tools to prevent these kinds of mishaps.