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How I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More for AWS

How I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More for AWS

Planned migration shifts the static site from GitHub Pages to AWS S3. DNS moves to AWS. Django stages on a subdomain before the main domain swaps.

A Terraform auto-approve ran with no remote state. It destroyed production RDS, VPC, ECS, and automated snapshots. AWS found a hidden snapshot and recovered the DB in ~24h.


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