The CTO's blog post is pretty half-assed: https://www.influxdata.com/blog/update-from-influxdata-paul-...

It's the same "we 'tried'" message they have here. Even worse, this wasn't a regulatory shut-down, this was a lack of demand decision. They had 100% control over the timing and means of the shut-down. They didn't even keep backups! They just deleted everything.

Some highlights from the blog. It reads like a "cover my ass" to the board, rather than fixing problems for customers.

* > Over the years, two of the regions did not get enough demand to justify the continuation of those regional services.

  * In other words, they had no external pressure. They just shut this down entirely on their own accord.

* Immediately, blames customers for not seeing notifications. Explaining "how rigorous" their communication was.

* > via our community Slack channel, Support, and forums, we soon realized that our communication did not register with everyone

  * In other words, "we didn't look at any metrics or usage data. How could we have possibly known people were still relying on this?"

* > Our engineering team is looking into whether they can restore the last 100 days of data for GCP Belgium. It appears at this time that for AWS Sydney users, the data is no longer available.

  * That's literally unbelievable. They didn't even keep backups!  They deleted those too! Even it the region is going down, I'd expect backups to be maintained for their SLA.

* Lastly, a waffling "what we could have done better" without any actual commitment to improvement. Insane.