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electroly on Feb 10, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Single dependency stacks

> it is impossible to "snapshot" S3 the way you can a database

FWIW, they added point-in-time S3 snapshots via AWS Backup recently.

0xbadcafebee on Feb 10, 2022 [–]

Have you seen how complicated it is? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/point-in-time-restore-f... It also seems to only be object changes, not all bucket changes, so treating the entire bucket as an immutable versioned artifact still isn't possible.

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