28th of July, 2024: I did something very stupid, but I "fixed" it

Earlier this month, I did something very very very very stupid: I locked myself out of my AWS account. Because of something stupid I unfortunately can't tell because of security issues stuff (insert clownsface).

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I don't want to talk about it. Anyways. Let's move on.

Luckily, the only thing that I got running on AWS was some a dummy webapp (www.theugliestaiapp.com) that I had created, just for getting familiar with the platform. However, now I was paying for running the web app on a cluster, and now I could not make it stop because I was locked out of my account. After some e-mailing with Amazon, I had two choices: (1), pay a shitload of money for an official document from a dutch notary that would verify my identity, or (2), DDos my web app such that it crashed, block my creditcard for Amazon and set up a new account. Since I am not that pro (yet) to know how to efficiently DDos my own web apps (without overconsuming the CPU in the cluster and again paying money for it), I only did the latter. I just simply blocked my creditcard, and now I hope Amazon will quitly terminate my account.

I am not proud of it.

But at least I learned some valuable lessons in backuping MFA keys and setting up good AWS security on my accounts.

To be continued.