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No disaster recovery? :/

Same as every other storage provider's default/basic storage offering. If you want georedundancy, you will need to build it.

EDIT: Apparently GCS has this feature built in. Did not know, very cool!

I thought basic products like S3 provided cross-region replication, which gives georedundancy?

But anyway why should I have to build it on top of the provider's offering - why wouldn't they provide georedundancy for me? It seems like a truly basic thing to expect for a backup solution?

But I'm not an expert in this area.

Good Cloud Storage (GCS) has this functionality out of the box.

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/locations

/I work for Google/

S3 replicates across available zones, meaning copies in multiple DCs but in the same general area.

You can setup a bucket to replicate a bucket in another region, at double the storage costs plus bandwidth charges.

All clouds have options to do multi-regional storage. GCS has multiregional class. Azure has GRS class. AWS has cross-region replication that can be added to a bucket.

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