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"No amount of redundancy matters" — AWS deletes 10 years of an engineer's data, and there could be a conspiracy afoot

The AWS Amazon Web Services pavilion stands are seen at the 2025 Hannover Messe industrial trade fair on March 31, 2025 in Hanover, Germany.

Cloud storage is extremely convenient, but it doesn't come without some risks. Now, a software engineer and self-proclaimed open-source enthusiast is claiming to have lost 10 years' worth of data saved on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

In a lengthy blog post published on Seuros, the software engineer details "a catastrophic internal mistake at AWS MENA" that led to 20 days of support futility and, ultimately, no meaningful resolution.

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