Google Cloud error erases $135B pension fund

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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304666

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> some of UniSuper's backups on Google Cloud's servers and elsewhere were salvageable, and the fund was able to recover its data, teaching us all a lesson about having multiple redundancies.

> UniSuper had backups in place with an additional service provider. [0]

What strikes me is that the backups didn't come from the provider who was directly responsible for losing the data.

[0] https://www.unisuper.com.au/about-us/media-centre/2024/a-joi...

Actually: "Data backups that were stored in Google Cloud Storage in the same region were not impacted by the deletion"

UniSuper's report and gcp's differ in this regard.

Why would anyone use Google cloud? No one ever got fired for using ~IBM~ AWS

Because they don't give out customer data like AWS does?

https://firewalltimes.com/amazon-web-services-data-breach-ti...

It seems like those breaches all revolve around misconfiguration.

Aren’t all clouds vulnerable to issues like this?

I haven't seen the same volume of breaches from Google Cloud.

Breaches are not the same as giving away.

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