The Importance of a Good Backup Strategy

S3 versioning is insufficient for accidental deletion, malicious deletion and at scale recovery. A common failure mode of backup planning is not having a clear understanding around what scale of disaster you're attempting to defend your data against. There's a reason that AWS backup for S3 launch despite its clown shoes pricing that costs more than the S3 original copy of the data it's protecting. Your backup should be encrypted, but better hope you don't live here too much.