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by witnesser2 968 days ago
There was once upon a time a discussion about bank/finance software system. You have to keep long history of audit records / logs. It is difficult to peruse such consideration here with the database ballooned to the cloud.
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> You have to keep long history of audit records / logs. It is difficult to peruse such consideration here with the database ballooned to the cloud.

Actually, it's easier. AWS RDS with multi-zone failover and replication + backups with retention schedules, deletion protection and legal holds... easy as a cake, less than 100 lines of Terraform code. And no risk of insider threats deleting, manipulating or ransoming the backups.