[metadat]

It's always a risk when you're leasing computer resources from a 3rd party.

At least if you own the hardware, you won't lose your data (except in extreme cases where the government takes it, but if this is the case you're screwed and data / service loss is the least of your worries).

[type0]

> At least if you own the hardware, you won't lose your data (except in extreme cases where the government takes it

For colocation you probably won't loose the data but the company you chose can still disconnect you. And it's not uncommon in certain countries that police will take the whole rack belonging to different customers when they do police raids against pirating, mainly because they're incompetent but also trying to find other violators.

[quickthrower2]

People have backups on another cloud / on premise right?

[metadat]

That's a lot of work to do right. Probably rare in the wild.

[Grimburger]

> That's a lot of work to do right.

Compared to?

Backups are something you should have regardless, an account with other providers and means to spin up some nodes is just basic common sense.

Vote with your wallet, let the execs know and never come back, it's honestly that simple.

[metadat]

Agreed. It's easy to get a false sense of security with s3 / object storage being so reliable.

Always better to have an escape hatch and corresponding protocols in place.

[tluyben2]

Every business I work(ed) with found out that at least backups (on cd, dvd, tape and s3) for some systems were useless when trying to restore them. Sometimes they had been storing useless backups for many years before finding out they were done wrong at the worst possible time.

Nothing to do with the medium, just when you have 100-1000s of systems which are backed up, some of these systems 10+ years old, testing the backups is simply not done in reality.

[quickthrower2]

Testing restoring regularly is part of the deal of saying “i have a backup!”

A good thing is all these viral security requirements slithering through the software supply chain (and backup is a part of security because ransomware) will force anyone who sells SaaS to consider it after the startup stages when they sell to enterprises.