How many horror stories need to reach the front page of HN before people stop believing this? Getting locked out of your cloud provider is a very common failure mode, with catastrophic effects if you haven't planned for it. To my mind, it should be the first scenario in your disaster recovery plan.
Dumping everything to B2 is trivially easy, trivially cheap and gives you substantial protection against total data loss. It also gives you a workable plan for scenarios that might cause a major outage like "we got cut off because of a billing snafu" or "the CTO lost his YubiKey".
Sounds like the opposite of the survivor bias. I don't believe it's any sort of common (though it does happen), even less that "it should be the first scenario in your disaster recovery plan"
Every week there's another article on HN about a tiny business being squished in the gears of a giant, automated platform. In some cases like app stores this is unavoidable, but there are plenty of hosting providers to choose from. People need to learn that this is something that can happen to you in today's world, and take reasonable steps to prepare for it.
You can't dot every I, cross every t and also build a compelling product as a 2 person shop.
I could not disagree more. There's a right way and a wrong way to do this, it's trivial to do it right, and the risks of doing it wrong are enormous.