Well, Amazon might fail as a company at some point and then all your data will be gone. Theoretically. Much more likely, though, is that you, or some sysadmin

Well, Amazon might fail as a company at some point and then all your data will be gone. Theoretically. Much more likely, though, is that you, or some sysadmin at your company, or even some user will accidentally hit the "delete" button on something important, and then without a backup, you can't get it back. Which is honestly the thing that people usually need their backups for, anyway. This is what most "data loss incidents" are: people just messing up and deleting things they shouldn't have. Wetware is much more prone to failure than hardware, after all.