When Someone Says 'The Provider Handles Backups'

A teammate assumes that because the cloud service is managed, the workload's backup and recovery needs are already satisfied. Keeps the provider's role accurate without over-crediting it Pulls the conversation back to business recovery targets Creates space to ask about retention, restore timing, and testing Do not imply the provider's controls are useless Do not turn a quick correction into a full disaster-recovery lecture Do not skip the next concrete question about target or testing The provider handles backups for this managed database, so we should be covered already. The service may include backup capability, but we still own whether…

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