Damn, so much for that hope then.
Mhm! Where I work all the backups and such would be stored in S3, it depends on your failure mode. In our particular case it’s acknowledged in how we’ve architected things that “AWS goes down permanently” is not an acceptable failure mode, so there’s no need to plan for it.
I actually half believe them about the “back up in a week” thing if they have a single competent architect, because of course their social network whose entire point is hate speech is eventually going to get kicked off its hosting provider. That’s an obvious problem which you would architect around.
