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AWS accused of a ‘digital execution’ after it deleted 10 years of users' data without warning
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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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.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.