Quite, when you build a system in AWS you are hiring a bunch of hard core nerds to do all this shit for you. That's the deal. You don't need to set up your own restore server to verify your tape backups every night, you just archive your snapshots to Glacier. You can even set up a restore environment in a new VPC for zero capital costs and just spin it up once a quarter to verify the process. It makes all of this stuff an order of magnitude easier and cheaper.