We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline

Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by Neil44 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @04:26AM (#23334862)

How much liability can you claim against AWS if there's an issue with their RDS backups?

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Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by serverQuestion on Thursday May 28, 2020 @08:33AM (#23336475)

How much liability can you claim against Cloud Employee if there's an issue with your RDS backups?

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Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by sushshshsh on Thursday May 28, 2020 @10:20AM (#23337573)

What is the chance that Amazon cause an issue with your RDS backup, versus a Cloud Employee?

The answer is definitely not clear to me at all

EDIT: no sarcasm, I legitimately don't know which I would choose as a biz owner

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Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by Neil44 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @11:15AM (#23338296)

I would personally always have an off-platform backup to fall back on, as protection against the platform going down, accidental damage to data or malicious damage to data. Snapshots in cold storage too.

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Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by strgcmc on Thursday May 28, 2020 @10:03AM (#23337322)

Liability? Probably none. See section "11. Limitations of Liability." here: https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/

RDS SLA's are here (doesn't mention backups though, so not sure how that's handled): https://aws.amazon.com/rds/sla/

Not a lawyer or anything, but my layman's understanding is that, you essentially are voluntarily opting-in to waiving liability when you sign up for AWS and accept the terms and conditions, and instead of liability, you agree to accept service credits if SLAs are not met.

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