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In early April, I spun up a simple 3-tier architecture on AWS using Terraform. It was just for testing, and like any good engineer, I ran terraform destroy immediately after. Confident that everything was cleaned up, I moved on. Until AWS sent me an ...

May 2, 2025 · 3 min read · cloudenoch.hashnode.dev  
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