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.