“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups - eviltoast
UniSuper, a $135 billion pension account, details its cloud compute nightmare.
  • Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company.
  • UniSuper was able to recover data from backups with a different provider after the incident.
  • The incident highlighted the importance of having safeguards in place for cloud service providers to prevent such catastrophic events from occurring.
  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Unprecedented only means there’s no precedent. This just hasn’t happened before at this scale.

    • nieceandtows@programming.devEnglish
      211·
      6 months ago

      I was only commenting on the phrasing. ‘unprecedented cloud event’ sounds like some global scale meteorological event.