Deletion protection
Right now its too easy to delete a production database! Like AWS would be great to have a deletion protection on some databases turned on which requires maybe multiple confirm screens / email link verification or something else to make it safer? and it has to be "turned off" to be deletable.
12 Replies
foreign-sapphire•2y ago
Would love to learn more about your use case. not sure if you're familiar with our branching model, but by default when a project is created it's represented by branch. This branch includes all of the data, roles, databases, etc. Are you not using branches and instead are creating databases?
sensitive-blueOP•2y ago
Its what AWS has. You can't just go in and delete a db and poof its gone. It requires you to switch protection off explicitely. Also when deleting it gives by default a "final snapshot" option in all cases and hence provides from my perspective a better experience. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-rds-now-provides-database-deletion-protection/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-to-use-deletion-protection-to-enhance-your-amazon-dynamodb-table-protection-strategy/
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Amazon RDS Now Provides Database Deletion Protection
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How to use deletion protection to enhance your Amazon DynamoDB tabl...
Authorized Amazon DynamoDB users can perform actions against tables using the AWS Management Console, API, AWS CLI/SDK, or AWS CloudFormation. One of many possible operations that authorized users can perform is deleting a table. During the course of regular table management operations, authorized users might accidentally delete a table. Acciden...
foreign-sapphire•2y ago
Interesting. I'll share your feedback with the team. Thanks for sharing!
sensitive-blueOP•2y ago
Any project or branch with delete protection would not be deletable via the API as well. So prevents mistakes.
yappiest-sapphire•2y ago
I would like to second this request. It's frighteningly easy to delete a database at the moment, especially considering automated backups aren't yet supported.
In my mind, something like this would be ideal:
- Delete protection option that must be explicitly switched off before the db can be deleted (as proposed by OP)
- When deleting, you have to manually type the name of the database to confirm.
- Maybe give the option to download a pg_dump of the database upon deletion? Sounds excessive, but it couldn't hurt, right?
foreign-sapphire•2y ago
This is good feedback. I'll share it with our Product team
absent-sapphire•2y ago
100% with this
rival-black•2y ago
+1 from me
ratty-blush•2y ago
I found Neon is extremely dangerous.
Deleting a whole project is as easy as calling a single API by accident, and there is absolutely no backup....
fascinating-indigo•2y ago
We have some plans in the works for this 🙂
extended-yellow•2y ago
Is it possible to have an ETA on that feature?
As much as i love the product, no deletion protection and no MFA on the dashboard. It makes a dangerous mix 🫣 .
fascinating-indigo•2y ago
Not a promise: I hope within 3 months.