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Not to be too flippant, but the company's closing shop. So, yeah, the DevOps are fired, along with everybody else.

As for the rest of us: AWS is a great one-stop shop. Unfortunately, using just AWS puts you in the "all the eggs in one basket" scenario that we were warned against as children.



Two-factor authentication is a second basket.

Sending a copy to Glacier is a second basket.

Does Amazon not have 30-day undelete for bulk storage? Seems crazy.


> Two-factor authentication is a second basket.

Not in my books. Recommended to be sure, but this has far too many single points of failure. To name a few:

- Software corrupts data

- Hardware corrupts data

- Social engineering bypasses 2FA


> Two-factor authentication is a second basket.

Two-factor authentication is a second basket is a better carrying strap but it's still on a single basket.




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