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Account suspension

Suspensions, and the email they send to the mailbox they just turned off.

An account suspension takes everything at once — instances, buckets, DNS, and the mail server the notice was sent to. There is usually no warning and rarely a stated reason. The appeal runs through the same support system the suspension just cut you off from, and the only reliable escalation anyone reports is a public post that gets noticed. If your business is inside one AWS account, this category is the argument for it not being.

Account suspension2026-08-05

AWS is simply a dumb pipe

I have learned that AWS cannot be trusted with persistent data. They can be used for compute resources for spot jobs, assuming you can get them to approve your limits (quotas..lol). But they cannot be…

anonymous

Account suspension2026-08-05

AWS is holding my data hostage with no explanation

I did nothing wrong. They still haven't told me what they think I've done wrong, but they have my data locked up in an s3 bucket that I cannot access. It's been 22 hours now, still not even an explana…

anonymous

Account suspension2026-08-04

They suspended my account, took my email server down with it, then told me to read the email they sent me

AWS suspended the account running my mail server. The suspension notice was delivered by email. To the mailbox they had just switched off. 202 domains went dark.

Verified anonymous

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