AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
Key takeaways
- His proudest accomplishment in four years was saving my data.
- This is the finale of a trilogy nobody asked for.
- On May 23rd, Tarus published “Amazon Web Services - Four Years and Out”.
Blog AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn Back to all posts May 26, 202611 min read Abdelkader Boudih AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn 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.AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damnawscloudopen-sourcedevops In August 2025, I wrote about AWS deleting my 10-year account without warning. Then I wrote about the one human who restored it. Tarus Balog, a 20-year open-source veteran who escalated my case to a Severity 2 ticket, got the CEO’s attention, and proved that even inside a machine the size of AWS, one person could still make a difference.
This is the finale of a trilogy nobody asked for.
On May 23rd, Tarus published “Amazon Web Services - Four Years and Out”. Four years on the Open Source Strategy and Marketing team. Fired. And the part that gutted me: