Actually, it highlights the importance of a proper distributed backup strategy and disaster recovery plan.
Uh, yeah, that’s why I said
it is good practice and frankly refreshing to hear that a company actually backed up away from their primary cloud infrastructure
The same can probably happen on AWS, Azure, any data center really
Sure, if you colocate in another datacenter and it isn’t your own, they aren’t backing your data up without some sort of other agreement and configuration. I’m not sure about AWS but Azure actually has offline geographically separate backup options.
Google Cloud definitely backs up data. Specifically I said
The surprise here being that those backups are gone (or unrecoverable) immediately after the account is deleted.