I deleted over a petabyte worth of snapshots from AWS today.

As a data hoarder this feels like genocide.

I feel like haven't gone through or seen a petabyte of data for my entire life.

Anyway, doesn't Amazon charge a shitton of money to keep those, i.e. aren't you somehow given incentive to get rid of them to begin with?

You are plenty active here today.

@kamen Not really. Most of times, they are like: "You need to upgrade your plan, but we still accept your data".

@kamen This wasn't my fuckup, but this fix came to me from the billing department via some pissed off PMs for that company... LOL

Also, I should add I have literally ZERO idea what these were snapshots of... I mean like AWS EC2 backups or some shit, but IDK.

Wrote a lambda python script and then tacked that shit onto their snapshot creation so it will auto prune anything older than a month.

Didn't even touch whatever was making that many snapshots.... not my job and don't want to fuck up somebody else's back-ups even if they did fuck it up and have it running way too often, and I don't think the IAM user they gave me would have access high enough to fix that part anyway... so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Damn, I bet that cost a pretty penny ...