How are you handling data retention across your stack?

Question

For people building SaaS with data across multiple systems (S3, DBs, caches, etc), do you actually have a clean way to manage retention/deletion across all of them? (Especially when each customer has custom policies)Or is it more a mix of lifecycle rules, cron jobs, and manual cleanup?How are you doing this today? I feel like this is a blocker in enterprise deals when selling to regulated industries.

crawlwright · Accepted Answer

Mostly cron jobs and lifecycle rules in my experience, it&rsquo;s rarely clean. S3 lifecycle policies handle the easy stuff but anything touching multiple systems usually ends up as a scheduled job that someone wrote once and nobody fully trusts.