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eddyfromtheblok
What a nightmare! At least they thought ahead to have backups on another provider. Does GCE not have deletion protection for databases, etc?
aabhay
We’ve had our google cloud account frozen without an explanation or advance notice. Google has just this really unshakable reputation of being risky. We now host only non-critical secondary infrastructure there
zx8080
> Google has just this really unshakable reputation of being risky. We now host only non-critical secondary infrastructure there

Why hosting even non-critical infra there?

justinclift
Wonder if Google will be on the hook liability and/or damages wise?
jsiepkes
They probably get a ton of GCP credits.
justinclift
Not sure they'd be willing to use GCE from here on, outside of the immediate need to get themselves online.
zx8080
Engineers no. But with free GCE credits their managers will make them use it.
jsiepkes
> UniSuper said it lost cloud infrastructure in “two geographies”, a configuration it believed should have kept it safer in an outage situation.

But in the end, it's still a single system. As can be seen here. So it might help you when the DC burns down but it won't protect you from software bugs of your cloud provider.

deanCommie
Depends on the cloud provider. Some take regional independence (and even further, availability-zone independence) more seriously than the others.

Or to state it even more definitively, only one of the public cloud providers offers clear guarantees of availability-zone disaster recovery independence, never mind regions.

And it's not Google's or Microsoft's.

hnburnsy
And yet my Google Wallet data going back 10 years is still around with no way for me to mass delete it.
saurik
I guess Google no longer gets the same high they used to get from merely shutting down their own products, so they have now moved on to shutting down other peoples' products.