Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company's entire cloud environment (Unisuper, an investment company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider.
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Statement from Google on the Unisuper data deletion incident:
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@0xdabbad00
Whoever made their backup strategy and infrastructure is a hero! Deserves employee of the decade!
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@SwiftOnSecurity
@sysadafterdark
@DecryptedTech
Someuwune did a uwupsie wuwupsie!
@uwu_underground
more material for future tracks!
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@0xdabbad00
It’s happens all the time, everyone that operates cloud services know this. That’s why you always do provision backups on other providers.
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@0xdabbad00
Sounds a lot like the small manual operations without peer reviews that was supposed to do a quick fix
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@0xdabbad00
That’s not luck; that’s someone sweating the details and fighting political headwinds internally.
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So you’re supposed to have backups on GCP Azure and AWS? Can companies self custody?
@LVNilesh
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Beggars belief. Until you understand how these automated configuration systems are built, and how they sometimes lack enough guardrails.
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