“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.
  • 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.