UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

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Post by siganakis » Fri, May 10, 2024, 6:43 AM UTC

UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted
itnews.com.au

Re: UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

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Post by eddyfromtheblok » Fri, May 10, 2024, 7:47 AM UTC

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

Re: UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

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Post by aabhay » Fri, May 10, 2024, 8:03 AM UTC

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

Re: UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

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Post by justinclift » Fri, May 10, 2024, 8:29 AM UTC

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

Re: UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

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Post by jsiepkes » Fri, May 10, 2024, 9:03 AM UTC

> 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.

Re: UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

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Post by jsiepkes » Fri, May 10, 2024, 9:03 AM UTC

justinclift wrote: post #4

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

They probably get a ton of GCP credits.

Re: UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

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Post by justinclift » Fri, May 10, 2024, 9:43 AM UTC

jsiepkes wrote: post #6

justinclift wrote: post #4

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

They probably get a ton of GCP credits.

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

Re: UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

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Post by dualscyther » Fri, May 10, 2024, 11:09 AM UTC

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

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

Re: UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

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Post by hnburnsy » Fri, May 10, 2024, 2:25 PM UTC

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

Re: UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

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Post by saurik » Fri, May 10, 2024, 2:37 PM UTC

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.