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by bookstore-romeo 321 days ago
The Register had a piece on that story earlier this week: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/aws_wipes_ten_years/
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/aws_wipes_ten_years/

> An AWS spokesperson told The Register: "We always strive to work with customers to resolve account issues and provided advance warning of the potential account suspension. The account was suspended as part of AWS's standard security protocols for accounts that fail the required verification, and it is incorrect to claim this was because of a system error or accident."

Note that this deletion — without the supposedly standard 90d grace period — was NOT an error (up until the time it's been reinstated, apparently).