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AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

by Abdelkader Boudih seuros.com published 2026-05-2610 min read

Remember Tarus Balog, the AWS employee who rescued my deleted account when nobody else would? AWS just fired him. His proudest accomplishment in four years was saving my data. Leadership didn't care. The finale of a trilogy nobody asked for.

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