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I think rather than a lack of data security it stems from a misunderstanding of the product offer from AWS in the first instance. Depending on how the system is configured I am not actually sure that even if the hosting had the diversity Salvatore thought it did that it would have saved the site from this. If “deliberate” changes were replicated across all copies then it may still have happened.
I can’t comment or n the ease or otherwise of selecting the wrong part of the file store structure for the delete that was done, but can anyone working with large amounts of data say that they have never had that clammy moment when they thought they had just unexpectedly deleted the lot? Regardless of if they actually had or not. The difference here from the small company IT guy accidentally deleting the entire payroll database when he meant to delete a single ex employee is that this has been done in public.
The big issue IMO was not keeping abreast of the change in availability of services such as versioning and snapshots, which may have saved all our bacon here. Beyond saying that, I am keeping my mouth shut as I don’t much like being a demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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