What’s a cloud mistake that cost you time or money?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1tn16wj/whats_a_cloud_mistake_that_cost_you_time_or_money/

Original Reddit post

Cloud makes it easy to build fast, but also easy to make expensive mistakes. What’s a mistake you’ve made (or seen) that others should avoid? submitted by /u/logical_people

Originally posted by u/logical_people on r/ClaudeCode

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piranhaphish@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 120d

I deleted a production database. Backups and all.

I was reviewing databases in RDS, and I saw one left over from an earlier project of mine. So I deleted it and, knowing it have been used only for a temporary test, I instructed AWS to delete all of the automatic snapshots.

10 minutes later a colleague messages me asking if I deleted his database for his live project. I laughed at first thinking it was a joke, because it didn't even occur to me that it could have been his database.

The lesson: Don't name your databases generic names.