Availability is a core part of Security (not just Confidentiality or Integrity). In that respect, I think DO is doing the right thing - they eventually scrub al

Availability is a core part of Security (not just Confidentiality or Integrity). In that respect, I think DO is doing the right thing - they eventually scrub all data, but leave a small window to recover from mistakes. Of course, it depends on the use-case and customer priorities, but in my opinion, availability is a much bigger concern for most DO customers than confidentiality. If customers are deeply concerned about the latter, I would say they are less likely to choose a virtual platform in the first place. I think this could be corrected with a small note (backup data will be scrubbed within 24 hours. If you wish to remove this data sooner, click here). Having experienced making a mistake and removing the wrong virtual host (albeit on Linode), I really appreciate the fact that it could be recovered. And yes, I have external backups and could have recovered it otherwise, but it was much easier to have an 'undo destroy virtual host' button (so to speak) than to kick off my restore process. I hope Digital Ocean and other cloud providers don't change the default behaviour. It will hurt many more customers than it would help in my opinion.