You also can't just add on backups indefinitely or your costs will also approach infinity given enough time. There has to be a mechanism for deleting things, be it on DVD or on object lock cloud hype.
Object locks have a configurable expiration date.
But what if that has a bug?
Again, this is yet another typical HN discussion. We are now comparing a consumer grade SSD taped to a Raspberry PI without ECC memory to a theoretical bug that might be in S3's or B2's object lock implementation. They have stored petabytes of data and there are virtually no reports of data loss ever, nor has anyone bypassed object lock, even if it's a high-value target.
Object locks have a configurable expiration date.
But what if that has a bug?
Again, this is yet another typical HN discussion. We are now comparing a consumer grade SSD taped to a Raspberry PI without ECC memory to a theoretical bug that might be in S3's or B2's object lock implementation. They have stored petabytes of data and there are virtually no reports of data loss ever, nor has anyone bypassed object lock, even if it's a high-value target.