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Wow - I was wrong. I thought this would have been something like terraform with a default to immediate delete with no recovery period or something. Still a default, but a third party thing and maybe someone in unisuper testing something and mis-scoping the delete.

Crazy that it really was google side. UniSuper must have been like WHAT THE HELL?

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The article describes what happened and it had nothing to do with Unisuper. Google deployed the private cloud with an internal Google tool. And that internal Google tool configured things to auto-delete after a year.

One assumes they are getting a massive credit to their GCP bill, if not an outright remediation payment from Google.

The effusive praise for the customer in Google's statement makes me think they have free GCP for the next year, in exchange for not going public with their frustrations.

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