I was running some AWS CLI commands today and found this string in the output:
"AccountCreatedDate": "2015-03-11T15:06:45Z"

I completely missed the 11-year anniversary last month. Since I was born in 1995, I was only 19 when I opened this account. It is wild to realize I have been tied to Big Tech infrastructure for over a third of my life without really thinking about it.

Back then, the cloud felt like the ultimate solution.
But today, my main goal is to move away from it. Funny how the background processes of our digital lives can run for over a decade before we finally audit them.

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