An option for the backup bucket to be in a different region would actually be a good idea. How hard would it be to add @gerhard? Default to the same as assets, but override if set.
If your site is hosted in us-east-1[1], and that region has downtime, you can still pull a backup from another region and stand up the site elsewhere.
Don’t host your site there. It’s the worst region ever. ↩︎