Comment by janalsncm
8 months ago
I think it stretches credulity to say that the first time such an event happened was with a multi billion dollar mutual fund. In other words, I’m glad Unisuper’s problem was resolved, but there were probably many others which were small enough to ignore.
I can only hope this gives GCP the kick in the pants it needs.
GCVE (managed VMware) is a pretty obscure service, it's only used by the kind of multi billion dollar companies that want to lift and shift their legacy VMware fleets into the cloud as is.
A critical piece of the incident here was that this involved special customization that most customers didn't have or use, and which bypassed some safety checks, as a result it couldn't impact "normal" small customers.
I doubt it, because even a smaller customer would have taken this to the press, which would have picked up on it.
"Google deleted our cloud service" is a major news story for a business of any size.