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.
Sure, but the point is that he was supposedly paying AWS to have multiple backups in multiple regions, which he very carefully set up to maximize redundancy. If, at the end of the day, there is no actual redundancy because AWS itself is actually malicious insofar that it will delete all of your data for no good reason at all and then blame it on you, then they are being very dishonest about their product.