“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups
“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups
arstechnica.com “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups
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.
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At the end of the day... Cloud storage is just using someone else's computer.
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