[motorest]

> If youre not Netflix then just sudo yum install postgresql and pg_dump every day, upload to S3.

database services such as DynamoDB support a few backup strategies out of the box, including continuous backups. You just need to flips switch and never bother about it again.

> Has worked for me for 20 years at various companies, side projects, startups …

That's perfectly fine. There are still developers who don't even use version control at all. Some old habits die hard, even when the whole world moved on.