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> At AWS, I once took an entire AZ down of a public-facing production service (with a mis-typed command), but that was nothing compared to when I accidentally d
by ardy42 6y ago
> At AWS, I once took an entire AZ down of a public-facing production service (with a mis-typed command), but that was nothing compared to when I accidentally deleted an entire region via internal console (too many browser tabs). Thank goodness turned out to be unused / unlaunched, non-production stack. I felt horrible for hours despite zero impact (in both the cases).
It seems like a design flaw for actions like that to be so easy. E.g.
> Hey, we detected you want to delete an AWS region. Please have an authorized coworker enter their credentials to second your command.
- ignoramous 6y agoIf it was indeed in-production, I'd never in a million years have had access rights to delete the stack. Those are gated just the way one would imagine they should be. The service stack for the region (and not an entire region itself) looked like prod, but wasn't. It made me feel like shit anyway.