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Ask HN: What is your AWS backup strategy?

9 points by steilpass ↗ HN
The latest AWS outages made it apparent that we need some backup strategy for AWS services. So how is your AWS backup strategy? Do you maintain a different stack on a different hoster? Is there a way to boot Amazon Machine Images somewhere else?

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schmrz
Generally you should always make sure to have backup plans but sometimes it's not worth it. Do you really need to maintain a backup strategy which requires a lot of resources for less than 12 hours of downtime per year ?
couriernew
Perhaps there is a strategy that doesn't require a lot of resources. If there is, I'd be interested to hear about it. Something akin to whipping up a linode box with a pre-made script.
steilpass
+1 Too bad this didn't made it to the front page.