Your data is fully encrypted, private and backed up. We use the Amazon S3 service for storing documents. This service replicates a file in three separate global locations as soon as it is uploaded, ensuring a robust data backup strategy. Scilife is run on virtual application servers in the cloud, allowing it to scale out and scale down automatically depending on the usage demand at any particular moment. This saves costs on infrastructure, which translates into a highly cost-effective solution for you. It also protects against server failure, as new servers are activated automatically in minutes if hardware failures are detected. To safeguard database data, a snapshot is taken every 5 minutes as a data backup policy, and the backup is kept for 30 days.