@jawnsy they had a week long outage and had to rebuild using data from another cloud provider 😅

Google Cloud (GCP) CEO has gone on the record now and said directly they accidentally deleted a $125bn business cloud estate in error. https://qz.com/google-cloud-pension-fund-unisuper-1851472990

A config mistake at Google’s end led to their VMs being deleted.

One of the absolutely wild, to me, things is learning that cloud providers have fans… who absolutely refuse to believe the cloud provider could do something wrong.

Who the fuck stans a cloud provider? Tech nerds, apparently.

Gonna make some Killed By Google: Your Company T-shirts.

GCP issue where they accidentally deleted a customer continues - Google Cloud aren’t challenging it.

Customer was able to recover as they had backups in another cloud provider after a recent migration to GCP.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/unisuper-private-cloud-outage-caused-by-google-cloud-issues/

Google have apparently issued a statement via Unisuper.

Might be worth people following up with Google to see if they wrote this - as far as I know it’s the first case of a major cloud provider screwing up a customer so badly. Unisuper say in their update they’ve been able to restore data from a backup they had at another cloud provider.

Like @Quinnypig, I’d love if Google went on the record about what happened with this one.

https://www.unisuper.com.au/contact-us/outage-update

Tl;dr is an entire org got wiped, and they’re trying to suggest it’s some kind of Google Cloud issue as the cause.

Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-broken-promises-streaming-ride-hailing-cloud-computing-2023-8