AWS's sudden removal of a 10-year account and all of its data: lessons learned

If you're interested in the post from the account owner rather than this short blog post.

- https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-w...

The Register had a piece on that story earlier this week: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/aws_wipes_ten_years/

The post is a bit disingenuous. The source says that there was some validation request pending, so something was going on.

Doesn't make it less bad but it's not like AWS just deleted an account out of nowhere. The implications of a slow response might not have been clear to the owner and that is on AWS

Most of the fault starts with AWS support, but Seuros did almost nothing correct unlike what the blog says. Frankly it's surprising to see yet another blog insisting on NOT learning lessons while being called "lessons learned". How hard do you have to try?

Get some training. It's in the first few slides... Read the docs. Look at the Well-Architected Framework...

See this comment for what he should have done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44828910

Digging deeper, it seems like the user just did it themselves. Didn’t properly verify their account. That’s the end. What do you expect?