>By contrast, S3 buckets are rarely backed up (a rather short-sighted approach for mission-critical cloud data), and even one-off archives are rarely done.
This is a complete aside, but how often are people backing up data to something other than S3? What I mean is it some piece of data is on S3, do people have a contingency for "S3 failing".
S3 is so durable in my mind now that I really only imagine having an "S3 backup" if (1) I had an existing system (e.g. tapes), or (2) I need multi-cloud redundancy. Other than that, once I assume something is in S3, I confident it's safe.
Obviously this was built over years (decades?) or reliability, and if your DRP requires alternatives, you should do them, but is anyone realistically paranoid about S3?
This is a complete aside, but how often are people backing up data to something other than S3? What I mean is it some piece of data is on S3, do people have a contingency for "S3 failing".
S3 is so durable in my mind now that I really only imagine having an "S3 backup" if (1) I had an existing system (e.g. tapes), or (2) I need multi-cloud redundancy. Other than that, once I assume something is in S3, I confident it's safe.
Obviously this was built over years (decades?) or reliability, and if your DRP requires alternatives, you should do them, but is anyone realistically paranoid about S3?