UniSuper members go a week with no account access after Google Cloud misconfig | Hacker News
This is a staggering fail by Google — Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company’s *entire cloud environment* (UniSuper, an Australian pensions company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider. They were only convinced to migrate to GCP last year, and then this. Looking forward to the root cause analysis…. (via Last Week in AWS)
(tags: gcp google fail unisuper account-deletion ops nightmare)