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> Because that's what Google does

Your argument would be stronger if you could list a few cases like that latest high profile one where GCP deleted some enterprise customer's account. A single one won't cut it for "that's what Google does".

With Google, the deletions almost always are intentional, not accidental, and this is a huge problem with it. Google (not GCP) deleted ten years of my data without warning or notification or remorse or recourse even though I was doing nothing illegal. Amazon would never do something like it. To Google, once a customer or service becomes just 1% inconvenient, it's time to get rid of the customer or service. It's a very valid concern.

I challenge you to find an organization that has never made a mistake. Truth is the uptime and reliability of Google services is very good, while operating at huge scale. And I have no association with Google whatsoever.

Cloud computers are just someone's else computer. Amazon and Microsoft engineers can make the same mistake too. Take backups and test them regularly and you'll be OK.

It's from 2016 when google was less trash.