How I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More for AWS
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I’m working on expanding the AI Shipping Labs website and wanted to migrate its current version from static GitHub Pages to AWS.
How I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More for AWS A Terraform command executed by an AI agent wiped the production infrastructure behind the DataTalks.Club course platform. Here’s how it happened and how the database was restored. Alexey Grigorev Mar 06, 2026 166 34 12 Share I’m working on expanding the AI Shipping Labs website and wanted to migrate its current version from static GitHub Pages to AWS. And later, replace the original Next.js setup with a Django version. My gradual plan was: Move the current static site from GitHub Pages to AWS S3 Move DNS to AWS so the domain i
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