> Your data will be backed up, your backups will be restorable Well, usually... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13620622 https://news.ycombinator.com/ite

> Your data will be backed up, your backups will be restorable Well, usually... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13620622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13620622 Pretty sure I've read similar stories more recently. Probably still better odds of successful restore with RDS than with a home-rolled setup. But there's no substitute for verifying backups.