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The article notes Google Cloud revenue grew 82% YoY

How much did Google spend to get that increase?

Why do people choose the cloud with a history of randomly deleting billion-dollar accounts?

UniSuper?

(The claim felt so wild I wanted to check, and indeed, the private Google Cloud for the $125bn Australian pension fund was accidentally deleted by a provisioning misconfiguration. Any others?)

IIRC, the files for Toy Story 2 were accidentally deleted during production, and the film was only saved because someone on maternity leave had a backup at home.

Turns out you can fuck up self hosting too.

Yes, Google randomly deleted UniSuper for basically the same reason they randomly ban individual customers: they don't care. Relying on them for anything is a huge mistake.

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