“AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning”

AWS: Not even once. This prominent Ruby developer lost his entire test environment - which, ironically, was pivotal to AWS' own infrastructure - because of a rogue team within AWS itself that apparently answers to no one and worked hard to cover up a dumb mistake.

On July 23, 2025, AWS deleted my 10-year-old account and every byte of data I had stored with them. No warning. No grace period. No recovery options. Just complete digital annihilation.

This is the story of a catastrophic internal mistake at AWS MENA, a 20-day support nightmare where I couldn't get a straight answer to Does my data still exist?", and what it reveals about trusting cloud providers with your data.

Abdelkader Boudih

Nightmare scenario doesn't even begin to describe what happened here.