Comment by phito
8 months ago
It's a joke that they're not doing these things. How can you be an giant cloud provider and not think of putting safe guards around data deletion. I guess that realistically they thought of it many times but never implemented it because our costs money.
It’s probably because implementing such safeguards wouldn't help anyones promo packet.
I really dislike that most of our major cloud infrastructure is provided by big tech rather than eg infrastructure vendors. I trust equinix a lot more than Google because thats all they do.
I work in GCP and have seen a lot of OKRs about improving reliability. So implementing something like this would help someone's promo packet.
This is exactly the kind of work that would get SREs promoted.
It is funny Google has internal memegen but not ideagen. Ideate away your problems, guys.
Understandable, however public clouds are a huge mix of both hardware and software, and it takes deep proficiency at both to pull it off. Equinix are definitely in the hardware and routing business.. may be tough to work upstream.
Hardware always get commoditized to the max (sad but true).
As a customer of Equinix Cloud... No thank you. Infrastructure vendors are terrible software engineers.