So, if the sum total of Parler was 70 Terabytes, as claimed... the transfer time would be 38 hours, if it was hosted on one instance... but it obviously wasn't. It was more likely only a matter of minutes.
This shows a new type of cloud hosting vulnerability. Your entire corporations infrastructure could be mirrored faster than you could notice.
and YOU are paying for the bandwidth too :-)
This is actually fucking terrifying.
- Nation states that manage to infiltrate a few spies into Amazon or Google could "just" copy the backups of the database without anyone being the wiser.
- My favourite mission ever from the "Shadowrun" games: Step 1 was a mission to alter the backups of some main database (stored at some 3rd party) to include additional admin credentials. Step 2 was to "clumsily" attack the main target and not-quite-hack the main system so that they would restore from backup just to be sure, thereby importing the actual backdoor.