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Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too

Google cloud ceo says "it won't happen anymore", it's insane that there's the possibility of "instant delete everything"

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While UniSuper normally has duplication in place in two geographies, to ensure that if one service goes down or is lost then it can be easily restored, because the fund’s cloud subscription was deleted, it caused the deletion across both geographies.

TFW your BCDR gets disastered.

Also "massive misconfiguration" is the "spontaneous disassembly" of cloud computing. i'm sure it's mutiple systems are misconfigured causing chaos but it sounds hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Geo redundancy isn't BCDR. They did have a backup in another cloud provider, which is smart for this exact reason. If Google deletes all your shit, and you don't have a backup outside Google, you are well and truly fucked.