The paradox of backup is this: if someone can delete a backup, that person's account compromise means the backup vanishes too. And the operators who create backups almost always hold the power to delete them. As ransomware evolves, attackers zero in on exactly this point—deleting backups before encrypting data. Recovery becomes impossible, leverage for extortion established. Code Spaces' collapse in Day 1 was precisely this scenario.
AWS Backup's real value isn't convenience—"backup multiple services under one policy"—that DLM does for EBS alone