Oopsie ...
Lessons learned:
• There is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer.
• Always have multiple backups. Multiple backups save the day.
Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper's (investment company, $125bn in funds) entire cloud environment. #UniSuper had backups in another region, but #Google deleted those too. Luckily, UniSuper had yet more backups on another provider. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/09/unisuper-google-cloud-issue-account-access
Vladimir Savić /
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2024-05-11 09:16:46
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