UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/unisupers-google-cloud-environment-was-deleted-607786

by siganakis • 2 years ago

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What a nightmare! At least they thought ahead to have backups on another provider. Does GCE not have deletion protection for databases, etc?

aabhay• 2 years ago

We’ve had our google cloud account frozen without an explanation or advance notice. Google has just this really unshakable reputation of being risky. We now host only non-critical secondary infrastructure there

zx80802• 2 years ago

Google has just this really unshakable reputation of being risky. We now host only non-critical secondary infrastructure there

Why hosting even non-critical infra there?

justinclift2• 2 years ago

Wonder if Google will be on the hook liability and/or damages wise?

jsiepkes2• 2 years ago

They probably get a ton of GCP credits.

justinclift2• 2 years ago

Not sure they'd be willing to use GCE from here on, outside of the immediate need to get themselves online.

jsiepkes2• 2 years ago

UniSuper said it lost cloud infrastructure in “two geographies”, a configuration it believed should have kept it safer in an outage situation.

But in the end, it's still a single system. As can be seen here. So it might help you when the DC burns down but it won't protect you from software bugs of your cloud provider.

deanCommie• 2 years ago

Depends on the cloud provider. Some take regional independence (and even further, availability-zone independence) more seriously than the others.

Or to state it even more definitively, only one of the public cloud providers offers clear guarantees of availability-zone disaster recovery independence, never mind regions.

And it's not Google's or Microsoft's.

dualscyther• 2 years ago

See discussion from yesterday too (with a much less alarming title)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304666

hnburnsy• 2 years ago

And yet my Google Wallet data going back 10 years is still around with no way for me to mass delete it.

saurik• 2 years ago

I guess Google no longer gets the same high they used to get from merely shutting down their own products, so they have now moved on to shutting down other peoples' products.

ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313171

UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

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