The text discusses the performance of distributed backups in a multi-region YugabyteDB cluster, comparing it to a single region cluster. A 9-node cluster with 3 availability zones across two regions was configured for backup testing. The backup store used an Amazon S3 bucket, and the source cluster had a replication factor of 3. A read-intensive workload was loaded into the cluster before initiating the backup, which ran for about an hour without degrading performance. The test showed that distributed backups in multi-region clusters perform efficiently, with minimal impact on user experience.