More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed.
No, they had backups. They deleted those, too.
Google Cloud definitely backs up data. Specifically I said
The surprise here being that those backups are gone (or unrecoverable) immediately after the account is deleted.
I’ve found that Google deletes backups after a few months
A replica is not a backup.