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Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day by korzun on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:09PM (#13542521)
> I've never heard of anyone successfully suing AWS/Google/Azure over lost data or downtime.

Doesn't mean it never happens.

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Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day by chiefalchemist on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:09PM (#13547475)
Imagine how deep their pockets are. Now imagine how deep your pockets would need to be to go toe to toe with them.

Sure plenty of uber larges Incs are "in the cloud" but with mission critical (read: high value worth sueing over) applications and data? That's a pretty small universe.

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