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How do you do restore in those scenarios? You have a whole mess of snapshots of data that's in various stages of being wrong.

I'd rather just put up with the agony of RDS to get a point in time restore and treat my instances' data as volatile.

In followup, turns out they didn't even lose data as claimed.

It was a case of either lying or incompetence. Hunt didn't like that and blocked me for calling it out.

> In followup, turns out they didn't even lose data as claimed.

Link?

AWS need to add a button/option to ebs to have volumes be automatically backed up by aws itself. Without this few will do it or are even aware that it’s possible to do.

It doesn’t help that ebs backup takes forever, especially initially.

They did add that: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/

Ah, and the storm of "my AWS bill has skyrocketed, why is AWS doing this..." incoming in 1 week after such thing. No, thanks. RTFM.