If I were to upload a 50kb object to S3 (standard tier), about how many unique physical copies would exist?
According to https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ - it'd take at least a 1 megaton warhead to take out two of the ap-southeast-2 datacenters, and over 10MT to take out 3.
I suspect you'd need a lot less than that though, the 1MT warhead would probably take out enough outside-the-datacenter infrastructure to take the entire AZ offline. I don't care too much though, if someone's dropped a warhead that close to home I have other things to worry about than whether all the cat pictures and audit logs survive.
Speak for yourself. Many of us love our audit logs and show them to strangers whatever we can.
We’re among friends here.
AWS's guarantee is that you can lose two of the three copies and still have all the data. You can't do that without three complete copies.