I’m glad to hear that you didn’t lose anything critical. But snapshotting EBS volumes are not backing them up. If, by definition, it’s stored using the same ser

I’m glad to hear that you didn’t lose anything critical. But snapshotting EBS volumes are not backing them up. If, by definition, it’s stored using the same service, and therefore susceptible to all the same catastrophes that might befall the service, then it’s not a back up. I always set up a local read slave of the database server which has hot-swappable hard drives that get rotated out of a safe deposit box or fireproof safe. The only way I can properly trust that things are being backed up properly are to do it myself.