Years ago we ran ad campaigns on reddit that said something like:
"Your data is stored on AWS and your backups are stored on AWS ... you're doing it wrong."
... and they got almost zero traction.
In fact, many people were angered by the suggestion that data at a major cloud provider could be at risk in any way.
I’ve given up on trying to convince other people, though. Fortunately for me, unlike you, it’s not my bread and butter to do so.
Having worked with both clouds for several years, I'm intrigued by Google's services but struggle with trusting them enough to use for production.
It’s about insider and external threats. Operator error. System design failures.
There’s a lot of ways to mess up your own account.
I mean - I get that you’re saying Google has fewer checks and balances than AWS, but at some point it must be possible for the customer contact process to go wrong.
It’s an extra slice of Swiss cheese, but it only makes it less likely, not impossible.
Doing copy with rclone can be much much faster as well.
You’re taking the backups anyway, why not at least store them somewhere that can’t be deleted by the same red button as the original data?