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AWS accused of a ‘digital execution’ after it deleted 10 years of users' data without warning (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/tech@programming.dev
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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.

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[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

On top of all the other horrors, am I the only one seriously bothered by the fact that every dry-run is just a single fat-finger away from deleting all of a customer's data across all of AWS? I know that whenever I design a script to do something as dangerous as this, at the very least the default behavior is for it to do a dry-run so that if you want it to actually go ahead and make the changes you have to pass in an additional argument such as --confirm-deletion; for something this dangerous and apparently irreversible, I would probably also prompt the user to type "IAMSURE" before proceeding.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Even AWS forces you to empty a bucket before deleting and confirms it by making you type delete to delete the bucker.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That sounds even more reasonable to me!

What does "CDK" refer to?

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cloud Development Kit: https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Ah, so just adding the irony of AWS not even using its own tools to prevent these kinds of mishaps.