[wdewind]

As I said:

Not saying it's infallible, and you should always back up your data (Amazon can't prevent things like natural disasters - this is the point of backing up in general - you can't predict), but if you're going to act like you gave good examples, at least give good examples.

If that's what you call categorically denying that it can happen....

Again, please find a case in the last 2 years even.

I think we both agree you should back up your data, and as an IT policy it's obviously incorrect to ever think you're 100% safe, and if you use S3 you should still be redundant if you want to get closer to that 99.9% limit. But you'll never be 100% - that's life.

The only reason I defend S3 so heavily is that compared to the other options you'd be using instead of (or better: in concurrence with) S3, it's probably among the safest, data loss wise.