They Tell Us That "Cloud Storage" is Safe and Robust to Incidents Like Fires
"Cloud" providers have data loss too. And sometimes they just don't like you. Then what? It's not free, it's not safe, and it's just someone else's computer/s.
Moments ago: (via Techrights IRC)
AWS: Not even once. This prominent Ruby developer lost his entire test environment – which, ironically, was pivotal to AWS’ own infrastructure – because of a rogue team within AWS itself that apparently answers to no one and worked hard to cover up a dumb mistake.
On July 23, 2025, AWS deleted my 10-year-old account and every byte of data I had stored with them. No warning. No grace period. No recovery options. Just complete digital annihilation.
This is the story of a catastrophic internal mistake at AWS MENA, a 20-day support nightmare where I couldn’t get a straight answer to “Does my data still exist?”, and what it reveals about trusting cloud providers with your data.
↫ Abdelkader BoudihNightmare scenario doesn’t even begin to describe what happened here.
Tonight we plan to do backups, both to internal and external storage, nothing "cloud" or "hey hi" or "quantum" or whatever hype comes next.
Do you have backups? Where are they and who controls them? █