> being arbitrarily cut-off from their hosting provider wasn't part of their threat model
Let's be fair: The threat model here is "lose access to our data".
This can happen in a number of ways, lost (or worse, leaked) password to the cloud provider, provider goes bankrupt, developer gets hacked, and a thousand other things.
Even if you trust your provider to have good uptime, there's really no excuse for not having any backups. Especially not if you're doing business with Fortune 500's.
Let's be fair: The threat model here is "lose access to our data".
This can happen in a number of ways, lost (or worse, leaked) password to the cloud provider, provider goes bankrupt, developer gets hacked, and a thousand other things.
Even if you trust your provider to have good uptime, there's really no excuse for not having any backups. Especially not if you're doing business with Fortune 500's.