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.
  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    That sounds like a pretty trashy backup scheme. I don’t care what your subscription status is I’m keeping those backups until retension’s over.