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Re: Still locked out of my AWS account

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

eropple wrote: post #16
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't this require separate gmail addresses? If so, then that's an extremely bad idea. I already had one gmail account completely banned with no notice. I wasn't doing anything abusive -- I used it for some npm projects and a github account. Actually, is there a reasonable free gmail alternative for situations like this? I'd like to migrate. FastMail is worth paying for, but it's too expensive for one-off side proj…

You can use plus addresses for multiple AWS accounts. They're fine with that.

Cool, thanks!

Re: Still locked out of my AWS account

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Post by Confiks »

tartuffe78 wrote: post #8
distantsounds wrote: post #6

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This is such a meaningless statement. What exactly are you trying to convey?

Don't ever use services provided by a third party. That's why I cut my own hair, make my own toothpaste, and create my own electricity from coal I mine myself!

And if you want toasted bread, don't buy that $5 toaster, but source your own: http://www.thetoasterproject.org/page2.htm

Re: Still locked out of my AWS account

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

tjoff wrote: post #18
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't this require separate gmail addresses? If so, then that's an extremely bad idea. I already had one gmail account completely banned with no notice. I wasn't doing anything abusive -- I used it for some npm projects and a github account. Actually, is there a reasonable free gmail alternative for situations like this? I'd like to migrate. FastMail is worth paying for, but it's too expensive for one-off side proj…

Multiple gmail addresses is not a bad idea, but a highly supported and recommended setup.

Mine was banned with no notice after weeks of work. So I'm just putting this out there as a warning that gmail can crush you at any time with no recourse.

Re: Still locked out of my AWS account

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Post by tjoff »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #23
tjoff wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Multiple gmail addresses is not a bad idea, but a highly supported and recommended setup.

Mine was banned with no notice after weeks of work. So I'm just putting this out there as a warning that gmail can crush you at any time with no recourse.

Of course they can - but that is yet another reason to rather rely on multiple gmail accounts if the alternative is a single gmail account.

Re: Still locked out of my AWS account

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Post by joelrunyon »

colinmeinke wrote: post #2

8 days ago I tried to log in to my Amazon retail account, and received a password invalid error. As it turned out my account had been closed, as it appeared to Amazon that it had received a suspicious log in. This is the same account that I use for AWS - hosting websites critical to my business. Today it appears I am no closer to gaining access back to my AWS account than I was on day 1, even though I have been bille…

This happened to me with instagram.

I reset a password, then they detected "suspicious activity." I clicked "send pin via email" and the email never shows up. I've done it 3 or 4 times over the course of a week + it never works. It's a documented error + FB/Instagram refuse to addres it.

https://medium.com/@joelrunyon/instagrams-security-features-...

Re: Still locked out of my AWS account

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Post by ceejayoz »

gorkonsine wrote: post #19
distantsounds wrote: post #6

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This is such a meaningless statement. What exactly are you trying to convey?

There's always a danger when you rely on outside provider for something that's critical to your business or life. Sometimes you can't avoid it or it's completely infeasible to, but choose carefully. I see too many companies using AWS for stuff they could fairly easily self-host.

By "self-host", don't you mean "rely on a landlord / ISP / colocation facility"?

Re: Still locked out of my AWS account

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Post by willow9886 »

digi_owl wrote: post #12
colinmeinke wrote: post #2

8 days ago I tried to log in to my Amazon retail account, and received a password invalid error. As it turned out my account had been closed, as it appeared to Amazon that it had received a suspicious log in. This is the same account that I use for AWS - hosting websites critical to my business. Today it appears I am no closer to gaining access back to my AWS account than I was on day 1, even though I have been bille…

If anything this, along with similar situation(s?) with Google, should stand as a strong warning against single sign on systems across multiple services with multiple TOS.

Why do you see this as a single sign-on issue? Seems to me the issue is over reliance on large SaaS providers. Same things happens all the time to Google users.

Re: Still locked out of my AWS account

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

tjoff wrote: post #26
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine was banned with no notice after weeks of work. So I'm just putting this out there as a warning that gmail can crush you at any time with no recourse.

Of course they can - but that is yet another reason to rather rely on multiple gmail accounts if the alternative is a single gmail account.

If you use a single gmail account, it seems far less likely to get banned. I think I was caught in some sort of automatic purge, since I certainly wasn't abusing anything or using it for much beyond my side projects.

This email hostage situation kind of sucks. Hopefully there's an alternative for scenarios like this.

Someone mentioned self-hosting upthread. I wonder how difficult that is.

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