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Non-story. He let Terraform zap his production site without offsite backups. But then support restored it all back.
I'd be more alarmed that a 'destroy' command is reversible.
Distributed Non Consensual Backup
Never assume anything is gone when you hit delete.
Except when it's your own data, then usually you're fucked.
Usually not.
But you might need a pay a professional.
For technical reasons, you never immediately delete records, as it is computationally very intense.
For business reasons, you never want to delete anything at all, because data = money.
Retaining data can mean violating legal obligations. Hidden backups can be a lawyers playground.
Sure. Go ahead and find them based on pure speculation. First you have to put down $100k for all the forensics. Even if you would win the case, show me who is capable of doing something like that.
Thought it could be a liability sometimes! Maybe that ship sailed
Back in the day, before virtualized services was all “the cloud” as it is today, if you were re-provisioning storage hardware resources that might be used by another customer, you would “scrub” disks by writing from /dev/random and /dev/null to the disk. If you somehow kept that shit around and something “leaked”, that was a big boo boo and a violation of your service agreement and customer would sue the fuck out of you. But now you just contact support and they have a copy laying around. 🤷