Comment by blowski
9 months ago
As always, there’s a trade off. By using native backups, it’s typically cheaper and easier, with external backups having their own risks. The risk of the cloud provider making a stupid mistake is so small that there are usually many other risks that are worth mitigating first.
It’s usually quite easy to replicate your backups to another completely independent AWS account (not in the same organization, different payment method, etc).
You’re taking the backups anyway, why not at least store them somewhere that can’t be deleted by the same red button as the original data?