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1. Art9681 · 1789594293 · focus · HN ↗

   No disaster recovery plan? No offsite backups? Someone failed to applied the most basic principles that have existed for decades.

   1. advisedwang · 1789595264 · focus · HN ↗

      That depends on the data. If this is EBS or single-AZ S3, then from Amazon's perspective this was correct. Backup responsibly (for any data that does need to be backed up) lives with the customer, and Amazon has no way of knowing about that. EBS data data is unrecoverable, and that's what's reported.

      Now if this was multi-AZ S3 or whatever then this would be significant.

      The article does not tell us what products were impacted.

      1. altcognito · 1789597475 · focus · HN ↗

         I was unaware that Amazon even sold single AZ S3. 20% discount. Doesn't seem worth it. By the time I commit to purchasing S3 space, it has to be important data.

         I get that S3 is convenient and reasonably performant, but it is not cheap at all.

         1. jamesfinlayson · 1789608941 · focus · HN ↗

            Yeah agreed - any ephemeral stuff I need is generally in DynamoDB - S3 (and database) are for permanent storage.

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