Why Are All My Resources Deleted?

Question

**Points of My Scenario:**

**1. **My AWS resources includes multiple of EC2 instances, security groups, EBS volumes, subnets, and snapshots.

**2. **When I logged in this evening, ALL resources I created were gone/disappeared/deleted!

**3. **Earlier today, I received an "AWS Budgets" email notification that my budget exceeded my alert threshold.

**4. **I never learned AWS deletes one's resources when they merely exceed their budget alert threshold!

**QUESTION:** Why were all my resources deleted? How can I investigate who/what did this? Is there any recourse?

Alberto Fernandes · Accepted Answer

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Ananth Tirumanur · Answer

AWS does not delete the resources due to budget alerts. 
This has happened to me once where the browser cache was deleted and I got logged into us-east-2 instead of us-east-1. I did panic as I didn't see any of my regional resources. After I am able to think straight, I realize that the region was not the default region I usually log into.

AlphaCloudSolutions · Answer

Your resources may have been deleted due to accidental deletion or IAM user permissions. AWS does not automatically delete resources when a budget is exceeded, so it’s important to investigate further.
Check AWS CloudTrail: CloudTrail logs will show who or what initiated the deletion of your resources.
IAM Audit: Review IAM roles and permissions to ensure that only authorized users or services had the ability to delete your resources. 
These steps should help you understand what caused the deletions and if there was any unauthorized activity

Why Are All My Resources Deleted?

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