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One of the mundane but crucial tasks for every developer is properly handling backups. Cloud providers have outages, and data is sometimes lost. If that data is important to a developer's application -- say, a mission-critical database -- a lack of backups will be an unmitigated disaster.
Most cloud providers offer their own backup services for a fee, but that's often not good enough for a few reasons. First, it's common to have data spread across multiple clouds or providers. A developer might run an app on Amazon Web Services (AWS) but use a managed database provider outside of AWS, for example. Relying on built-in backups for each service is a fragmented and messy approach.
Second, developers often have little or no control over these built-in backups. Want to back up your database every day? You might not be able to, depending on your cloud provider.
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