The Backup That Wasn't We had backups. Daily snapshots to S3. Perfectly configured. Never...
The Backup That Wasn't
We had backups. Daily snapshots to S3. Perfectly configured. Never tested.
When we needed to restore after a data corruption incident, we discovered the backups had been silently failing for 3 weeks. The S3 bucket policy had changed, and nobody noticed.
Never again.
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