Hosting your business critical servers in the cloud is a great way to save on upfront cost and it also allows for greater uptime and reliability without the burden of keeping everything running in your office location.

However, much like an on-premises server just because your data is in the cloud, doesn’t mean it’s secured from server failure, corruption or accidental deletion; For this reason, you should be regularly backing up your cloud server and replicating said backups to another location.