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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by nicolas_17 on Sunday October 05, 2025 @06:12PM (#45485754)
DigitalOcean lost some of my files in their object storage too: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/tmnyhddpkyvf

Using a commercial provider is not a guarantee.

Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by lukevp on Sunday October 05, 2025 @06:25PM (#45485849)
DO Spaces, for at least a year after launch, had no durability guarantees whatsoever. Perhaps they do now, but I wouldn’t compare DO in any meaningful way to S3, which has crazy high durability guarantees as well as competent engineering effort expended on designing and validating that durability.