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Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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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"

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[–] 205 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Remember people: The cloud is just someone else's computer.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Most cloud providers have a way to set limits. Make sure you learn how to set appropriate limits to avoid unexpected bills.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The limits don't matter if the provider raises their price next month.

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