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”
Remember people: The cloud is just someone else’s computer.
Yeah there’s that, and the fact that you have no control over how much the bill will be each renewal period. Those two things kept me off the cloud for anything important.
Most cloud providers have a way to set limits. Make sure you learn how to set appropriate limits to avoid unexpected bills.
The limits don’t matter if the provider raises their price next month.
And some functions don’t support hard limits, you’d have to set up a script monitoring load and literally take down your service if you get near the max
https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1
Unless its a self-hosted cloud. Then its your own computers
thats why i am trying to explain to my family since forever. their answer always amounts to something like “it would be illegal for them to look at my data!” like those companies would care. .
in many cases “looking at my data!” is in their TOS
Hardly. It’s several colocated computers/drives designed to survive major events. It’s insane to me sys admins still think their 7 year old desktop sitting in a closet offers the same level of protections.
It’s not the tools that offer protection. It’s the practices and redundancies that matter. How often are you making secondary and tertiary backups, are those backups stashed in different locations and on different media?
This business owner made the right move by not relying on a single source for backups. Too many people and small businesses don’t think like that. They assume one backup is enough.
If it’s really important, you should be following the 321 backup rule, no matter if you’re using Google cloud or the old gateway in a closet. Without multiple backups, you’re always putting your eggs in one basket. It doesn’t matter how much you trust that basket, it’s a dumb idea to only rely on one backup for anything important, even if its Google cloud or AWS.
Maybe they’re properly designed, maybe not. How can you tell?
I think they call it testing.
But unless you can see the results of their internal tests…