> With AWS you think you need a robust DB and shit and you've made a decision that can be undone in minutes.
If it can be undone in minutes, it isn't much of a decision. A service that can be enabled or canceled on a whim is unnecessary.
Realistically, analyzing the guarantees offered by a cloud platform, your corresponding requirements, and how everything is supposed to work is going to take days, and actually developing and testing disaster recovery procedures is going to take even longer.
If it can be undone in minutes, it isn't much of a decision. A service that can be enabled or canceled on a whim is unnecessary.
Realistically, analyzing the guarantees offered by a cloud platform, your corresponding requirements, and how everything is supposed to work is going to take days, and actually developing and testing disaster recovery procedures is going to take even longer.