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“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com)
submitted 6 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper's account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company.
  • UniSuper was able to recover data from backups with a different provider after the incident.
  • The incident highlighted the importance of having safeguards in place for cloud service providers to prevent such catastrophic events from occurring.
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[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They're talking like it's some global celestial event

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unprecedented only means there's no precedent. This just hasn't happened before at this scale.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 20 points 6 months ago

I was only commenting on the phrasing. 'unprecedented cloud event' sounds like some global scale meteorological event.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago

The headline does say "Customer account" as in singular.