I did say "usually". :-)
An attacker monitoring the deletion can with impunity wipe out your data at a later date.
Only within the next 15 minutes. Beyond that point, AWS will reject the request for having excess clock skew.
An attacker monitoring the deletion can with impunity wipe out your data at a later date.
Only within the next 15 minutes. Beyond that point, AWS will reject the request for having excess clock skew.
As for "wonderful heisenbugs" -- the AWS services return a clear "hey, your clock is broken" error, so it wouldn't be very hard to developers to figure out what was going on.