DON'T PRESS THAT BUTTON.
The egress and early deletion fees on those "cheaper options" killed a company that I had to step in and save.
The egress and early deletion fees on those "cheaper options" killed a company that I had to step in and save.
Who would buy that? I guess if this happened enough then people would start "data salvager" companies that specialize in going through data they have no schema for looking for a way to sell something of it to someone else. I have to imagine the margins in a business like that would be abysmal, and all the while you'd be in a pretty dark place ethically going through data that users never wanted you to have in the first place.
Of course, all these questions are moot because if this happened the GDPR would nuke the cloud provider from orbit.
When I worked in Azure, I accidentally created some internal resources in a personal account. I didn’t have the ability to delete them after I left; the only way to do so was to cancel the credit card and let the grace period expire.
Proven by the fact that they happily went on to pay the bill for the next 6 months.