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Jul 12, 2026

Your backup quietly resurrects the users you deleted

Azure Table Storage and DynamoDB have no delete markers, so a deleted row just vanishes, which means your incremental backup never sees the delete at all. Restore that backup and the user you offboarded is back, with the password you rotated away from. Here is why deletes have to be first-class, and the one table that makes them so.

Jul 12, 20263 min read2 reactions1 comments