[ocdtrekkie]

Sure, but move it elsewhere later. And who doesn't keep a copy of the code they deploy?

[blep_]

> Students who are learning to build things on these platforms

... and have not yet learned about version control or backups the hard way.

[adesanmi]

It’s a good thing those students have access to thousands of dollars of free credit for AWS/Digital Ocean/Azure, etc.

Not to mention if whatever they are working does take off, those companies would throw extra credits to these students.

I think they’ll be fine.

[ocdtrekkie]

Well, then it's excellent they are learning this now and not later. The best time to learn about making backups is when you start programming, the second best time is today.

[chris_wot]

Then they need to learn!