Also you can configure s3 buckets to delete files older than X days. For non critical projects I tend to set this at 30 days. This way the total storage used b

Also you can configure s3 buckets to delete files older than X days. For non critical projects I tend to set this at 30 days. This way the total storage used by the backups doesn't grow beyond a certain limit and helps you to control the spending. Here are the relevant docs: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/object-lifecycle-mgmt.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/object-lifecy...