Comment by elendilm

Recent Iranian attacks on AWS locations in Bahrain resulted in loss of data that simply could not be recovered. https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/aws-middle-east-data-loss...

Of course, if you had paid extra for the backups and redundancy, your data would survive.

So to address your original point, unless you are paying extra for redundancy, it is cheaper if you use a 4TB SSD at retail price as the original commenter discussed.