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What's the danger of co-locating backups with the primary data they protect?
A region-wide or account-wide incident (the exact scenario disaster recovery exists to protect against) can destroy both the primary data and its backups simultaneously if they share the same failure domain — backups should be stored in an independent location/account/region.
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