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by dankotanko1599 754 days ago
It's just mind-boggling that their architecture allows this to happen so quickly IMO. There are so many resources and dependencies, that completely nuking a cloud account cannot and should not be easy or fast... and should not actually be possible by the cloud vendor. I suppose they need to guard against anyone setting up costly infrastructure and doing a "runner" (allowing a credit card to lapse) - in that scenario - deleting all the customers data should be the absolute last resort - after it's been reasonably determined they are being malicious. How does AWS manage these scenarios? I'm sure they follow-up multiple times before hitting the nuke button. In-fact - they know and treat their "larger accounts" with special privileges and assurances. Unisuper is not a small fish.