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There’s been a few hacker news threads on it but now we actually have a detailed post mortem from google with real details

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/detail...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-explain...

The first threads (before the post mortem came out) were very much blaming the pension fund and absolving Google. Many comments were along the lines of "some operator at the fund made a mistake, and Google is doing them a favor by offering to share blame"
Step #1 of deleting anything ever: create backups
And where feasible, rename first instead of deleting. The proper "delete" can come later on.