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InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/sysadmin

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Apparently they only sent 3 notification Emails, which a large number of their customers are reporting they never received. No one at InfluxData thought to do a scream test or even check the traffic levels to the region before deleting the data.

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[–] sylver_dragon 1 points 2 years ago

While this seems like something that absolutely should not have happened, it's also a good reminder that "it's in the cloud" does not mitigate the need for a good backup strategy. Maybe not the same level of on-site tape library backup solution many of us used to have; but, dumping the data onto a cold storage location on a different cloud on a regular basis would be a reasonable precaution.