Amazon S3 as secure backup without multiple invoices

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Published on 2010-05-21T10:52:38Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 11:00 UTC
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I'm storing copies of database backups on Amazon S3 using the Python Boto library. But I worry that if my web server was hacked, those backups could be deleted using the credentials I need to do the upload.

Ok, so I know you can grant permissions to another Amazon email address, so I can imagine doing that after an upload then removing the original user's write access BUT in this scenario I now end up with 2 accounts and 2 sets of invoices to give to accounts every month.

Is there a solution to this that doesn't require a new Amazon account for each web server I run?

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