It's quite amazing how many people think they can point the finger at some third party because they 'handed it off'. After all, if it's amazon then it's safe as the bank of England right?
But even banks can burn down and even amazon does not owe you a penny if they lose your stuff.
They'll say sorry, really nicely and maybe they'll offer you some store credit, comes in great when you have lots of free time, you can get some books. Maybe on how to back-up your data or so.
But if you are halfway competent you smile and take that backup and you continue your business, because the value of your business outweighs amazons liability by a huge factor.
Backing up is risk mitigation, if the risk to you is small then you can afford to live without backups, it means that the cost of backing up outweighed the cost of re-creation of the data.
If the risk is larger then you probably should accept that, and go do something about it.
It's quite amazing how many people think they can point the finger at some third party because they 'handed it off'. After all, if it's amazon then it's safe as the bank of England right?
But even banks can burn down and even amazon does not owe you a penny if they lose your stuff.
They'll say sorry, really nicely and maybe they'll offer you some store credit, comes in great when you have lots of free time, you can get some books. Maybe on how to back-up your data or so.
But if you are halfway competent you smile and take that backup and you continue your business, because the value of your business outweighs amazons liability by a huge factor.
Backing up is risk mitigation, if the risk to you is small then you can afford to live without backups, it means that the cost of backing up outweighed the cost of re-creation of the data.
If the risk is larger then you probably should accept that, and go do something about it.
Either way, the responsibility is yours.