AWS Deleted This Developer’s 10-Year-Old Account — All Because of a Botched Test

Something unexpected just happened in the cloud world — and it could happen to anyone.

An open source developer says AWS permanently deleted his 10-year-old account, along with everything inside it. No backups. No grace period. Just gone.

And the worst part? He believes it might have been caused by a test script gone wrong.

Meet the Developer

Abdelkader Boudih, known online as Seuros, is no stranger to the developer community.

He’s a seasoned software engineer, known for creating several widely used Ruby gems — the kind of tools that quietly power real-world systems across the globe.

Even engineers inside Amazon, he claims, have reached out to him for help with Ruby-related issues.

But none of that seemed to matter when his AWS account was suddenly terminated.

The First Warning

On July 10, Boudih received an email from AWS asking him to verify his account. The email gave him five days to respond.

What followed was nearly two weeks of back-and-forth with AWS support.