In a word: yes. You're thinking about data that can't be lost, or your customers are screwed. Not all data is like that. Log files come to mind. They're _ni

In a word: yes. You're thinking about data that can't be lost, or your customers are screwed. Not all data is like that. Log files come to mind. They're _nice_ to archive for a long time, but in many businesses, they're certainly not _critical_ to archive for a long time. Intermediate files, too. You retain the original files in secured storage. But because the intermediate files are large and expensive to re-create, you keep them here in AWS.