“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.
  • smokinliver@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    21·
    6 months ago

    If this is the thing I heard of a few days ago then google had multiple backups on different sites but they managed to delete all of them

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      I guess they weren’t paying quite enough to have offline backups? I believe financial institutions can keep stuff stored in caves (think records of all the mortgages a bank wants to be repaid for - data loss isn’t an option).

      • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        6 months ago

        From the sounds of it, they did, since they were able to recover the data from elsewhere.

        They just lost the data they kept and stored with Google.