{
  "id": 10499095,
  "title": "We checked 53,709 production resources for backups. 61% had none.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/we-checked-53-709-production-resources-for-backups-61-had-none",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-28T18:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/jsal570/we-checked-53709-production-resources-for-backups-61-had-none-4o29"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A recent assessment by a team from Eon found that 61% of production resources in 78 cloud environments on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure had no backup policy, no recovery point, and no native cloud snapshot. The assessment connected through a read-only role, discovered every resource, classified which ones were production, and checked each one for a recovery copy. The findings show that 14% of AWS production resources had a production tag, 66% had no environment tag at all, 27% had no tags of any kind, and 19% had an environment tag containing something that isn't an environment. Of the 53,709 production resources, 61.2% had no backup policy, no recovery point, and no native cloud snapshot the assessment could detect. The assessment also found that the median age of a production resource with no recovery copy is 502 days, while the median age of one with a recovery copy is 363 days. This suggests that the unprotected resources are not new ones, but rather an old resident population that nobody is watching.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}