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.
  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    4 days ago

    The cloud is just someone else’s computer.

    you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything

    Absolutely not. That data should be in at least two places. A local and a remote is the general setup. If a cloud provider is the main source of the data, the ‘remote’ location would probably be your house. ;p

    • misk@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      46·
      4 days ago

      Before anyone says “you put all your eggs in one basket,” let me be clear: I didn’t. I put them in one provider, with what should have been bulletproof redundancy:

        • misk@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          13·
          3 days ago

          „I put my carton of eggs in two Amazon fridges on two different continents”

      • oshu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago

        The first rule of uptime is never have only one of something critical, including providers.