Yes, Sometimes the software tools you use can mess up. I lost many production EC2 images because of this unfixed bug in elasticfox: http://sourceforge.net/trac

Yes, Sometimes the software tools you use can mess up. I lost many production EC2 images because of this unfixed bug in elasticfox: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2835716&group_id=212540&atid=1022151 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid... (basically if you have similarly named images, they'll all get deleted with the "Delete AMI parts and deregister" feature)