Super fund boss and Google Cloud global CEO issue joint statement apologising for ‘extremely frustrating and disappointing’ outage

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.

  • Kid_Thunder
    15•6 months ago

    Actually, it highlights the importance of a proper distributed backup strategy and disaster recovery plan.

    Uh, yeah, that’s why I said

    it is good practice and frankly refreshing to hear that a company actually backed up away from their primary cloud infrastructure

    The same can probably happen on AWS, Azure, any data center really

    Sure, if you colocate in another datacenter and it isn’t your own, they aren’t backing your data up without some sort of other agreement and configuration. I’m not sure about AWS but Azure actually has offline geographically separate backup options.

    • @flop_leash_973English
      5•6 months ago

      I use AWS to host a far amount of servers and some micro services and for them if you don’t build the backup into your architecture design and the live data gets corrupted, etc you are screwed.

      They give you the tools to built it all, but it is up to you as the sysadmin/engineer/ dev to actually use those tools.