snapshotting for us is a PITA -- there are lots of distributed elements to the system, data pipelines, async back-end processing, batch jobs, etc. Add to that,

snapshotting for us is a PITA -- there are lots of distributed elements to the system, data pipelines, async back-end processing, batch jobs, etc. Add to that, we have data masking requirements that mean we need to (for compliance reasons) obfuscate (datamask) sensitive data. This doesn't mean it's not possible to do, but it's a pretty big lift to get right, and keep right.