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DevOps means different things to different people.

most people use the term to mean 'a coder who can configure apache'

this whole incident reeks of a lack of OpSec and general Ops knowledge.

Lack of offsite backups is one thing, but if you're using cloud infrastructure you never place all eggs in one basket.

your instances have to be disposable and reproducible, at the first hint of a break in my default action is to torch and rebuild.

your instances have to be disposable and reproducible, at the first hint of a break in my default action is to torch and rebuild.

Or rather shutdown, preserve, start replacements. IMHO your automation should be able to deal with the old preserved instances being left alone.

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