UniSuper, a $135 billion pension account, details its cloud compute nightmare.
  • Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company.
  • UniSuper was able to recover data from backups with a different provider after the incident.
  • The incident highlighted the importance of having safeguards in place for cloud service providers to prevent such catastrophic events from occurring.
  • DiplomjodlerEnglish
    9•6 months ago

    And had you ever tested the restore process?

    • @[email protected]English
      1•6 months ago

      In a big iron shop?everything gets tested, dry run, etc, but shit happens, hence backups