Why I Back Up to Three Cloud Providers (And Monitor Them All)
TLDR; AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/
Problem: Your entire business can vanish at 3 AM (and how to prevent it)
One billing dispute later, his account was suspended and everything disappeared overnight—customer data, repositories, applications. His backup strategy? Also on AWS. Game over.
The indie founder's dilemma: Cloud providers are reliable until they're not. Account suspensions happen for billing issues, policy violations, even automated mistakes.
My approaches:
- Primary: Ensure Your Backups Actually Run
- Secondary: Distribute Across Separated Platforms
- Primary: Validate Backup Integrity
- Primary: Guarantee Restore Capability
The monitoring piece everyone misses: Heartbeat monitoring catches silent backup failures before you discover them during emergencies. Your backup script might "complete successfully" while actually backing up nothing.
Quick wins for cash-strapped founders:
- Start with backup monitoring for existing processes
- Add one secondary provider (even free tiers help)
- Test actual restore capabilities and times—disasters don't wait
Real talk: Building bulletproof backups costs way less than rebuilding your entire business from scratch.
Anyone else learned this lesson the hard way?
Read full version here https://bubobot.com/blog/why-i-back-up-to-multiple-cloud-providers
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The “AWS suspended my 10-year account overnight” example is the nightmare scenario, and your takeaways (multi-provider backups + heartbeat monitoring + restore tests) are exactly right.
Two small add-ons I’ve seen pay off: keep backups in a separate identity + billing (ideally a different cloud) with hardware 2FA; turn on immutability/versioning (WORM/Object Lock) so ransomware or fat-finger deletes don’t nuke history; and schedule restore drills with RTO/RPO targets so you know time-to-restore and egress pain before it matters.
Curious, what are you using for monitoring (Healthchecks/Cronitor/homegrown), and what’s your real “time to first byte” when you pull a 50–100GB restore across providers?
P.S. I’m with Buzz; we build conversion-focused Webflow sites and pragmatic SEO for product launches. Happy to share a tiny incident-readiness checklist if useful.
That's insightful comments, thank you. I'm Tom, co-founder at Bubobot, an AI-powered monitoring solution. Happy to connect!
This is a good approach because having backup data on multiple cloud providers reduces the risk of total loss. Implementing heartbeat monitoring for backups ensures their reliability. Testing restore times ahead of an emergency can save a business in case of data loss.