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Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it 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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[–] poo@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

And this is why I back up Google Drive locally every night.