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How much liability can you claim against AWS if there's an issue with their RDS backups?

How much liability can you claim against Cloud Employee if there's an issue with your RDS backups?

What is the chance that Amazon cause an issue with your RDS backup, versus a Cloud Employee?

The answer is definitely not clear to me at all

EDIT: no sarcasm, I legitimately don't know which I would choose as a biz owner

I would personally always have an off-platform backup to fall back on, as protection against the platform going down, accidental damage to data or malicious damage to data. Snapshots in cold storage too.

Liability? Probably none. See section "11. Limitations of Liability." here: https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/

RDS SLA's are here (doesn't mention backups though, so not sure how that's handled): https://aws.amazon.com/rds/sla/

Not a lawyer or anything, but my layman's understanding is that, you essentially are voluntarily opting-in to waiving liability when you sign up for AWS and accept the terms and conditions, and instead of liability, you agree to accept service credits if SLAs are not met.

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