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One time at work I accidentally triggered delete on an RDS CloudFormation stack It was not fun. Automatic backup from AWS is useless because automatic snapshot

by yeukhon 10y ago

One time at work I accidentally triggered delete on an RDS CloudFormation stack It was not fun. Automatic backup from AWS is useless because automatic snapshots are removed as soon as the RDS instance is removed unless you tell AWS to make a final snapshot. We didn't have that flag in the stack template at the time, so ugh. Oh how I deleted the stack? I was using the mobile app and was trying to look at the status of the Cfn stack, but the app was laggy my finger pressed the wrong button... sigh The other interesting thing was I checked the status because the previous night I changed my RDS instance to provisioned IOPS (took 8 hours and failed too). I felt sad and guilty, but at the same time I felt whatever because the upgrade didn't go through so perhaps this accident was all meant to be....

aaronmdjones 10y ago
Ouch. Doubly ouch that it seems that there's no confirmation dialog with a 5-second countdown before you can hit Yes, or whatever.
- yeukhon 10y ago
  Ever since I removed the app from my phone. It's buggy and right, I really do expect them to have a dialog both on PC and mobile...
- PhantomGremlin 10y ago
  For critical stuff IMO there needs to be more than just a confirmation dialog. The user needs to be transitioned into a totally different state of mind from the usual click, click, click, click. E.g. forcing someone to manually type the characters D E L E T E before allowing deletion of something potentially important. Either that or everything should have multiple levels of undo. Everything.
  - andrewaylett 10y ago
    There's certainly some stuff in AWS that requires you to type the name of the thing you're deleting into a text field in order to delete it, but I suspect that's purely a UI check -- there wouldn't be so much point in requiring the name twice in the underlying API. So if you've got a dud client implementation then you're going to lose the check. One way to do stuff like this is to have separate roles for read-only and read-write access. I pay a lot more attention to what I'm doing on the rare occasions I assume permissions to change things.

by yeukhon 10y ago

aaronmdjones 10y ago

Ouch. Doubly ouch that it seems that there's no confirmation dialog with a 5-second countdown before you can hit Yes, or whatever.

yeukhon 10y ago
Ever since I removed the app from my phone. It's buggy and right, I really do expect them to have a dialog both on PC and mobile...
PhantomGremlin 10y ago
For critical stuff IMO there needs to be more than just a confirmation dialog. The user needs to be transitioned into a totally different state of mind from the usual click, click, click, click. E.g. forcing someone to manually type the characters D E L E T E before allowing deletion of something potentially important. Either that or everything should have multiple levels of undo. Everything.
- andrewaylett 10y ago
  There's certainly some stuff in AWS that requires you to type the name of the thing you're deleting into a text field in order to delete it, but I suspect that's purely a UI check -- there wouldn't be so much point in requiring the name twice in the underlying API. So if you've got a dud client implementation then you're going to lose the check. One way to do stuff like this is to have separate roles for read-only and read-write access. I pay a lot more attention to what I'm doing on the rare occasions I assume permissions to change things.