Comment by politelemon
9 days ago
S3 features have saved our bacon a number of times. Perhaps your experience and usage is different. They are worth trusting with business critical data as long as you're following their guidance. GCP though have not proven it, their data loss news is still fresh in my mind.
Were you talking about this incidence? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-acciden...
I am currently evaluating between GCP and AWS right now.
I read the article and it seems that, that thing happened because their account got deleted and here is something from the article you linked
Google Cloud is supposed to have safeguards that don't allow account deletion, but none of them worked apparently, and the only option was a restore from a separate cloud provider (shoutout to the hero at UniSuper who chose a multi-cloud solution).
If you are working with really important software, please follow the 3-2-1 EVEN with cloud providers I suppose if you genuinely want ABSOLUTE guarantee I suppose, but it depends on how important the data is I suppose for the prices.
I have thought about using some cheap like backblaze and wasabi and others for the 3-2-1 for backups I suppose I am not sure but I do think that this incident was definitely a bit interesting to read into and I will read more about it, I do remember it from kevin fang's video but this article is seriously good and I will read it later, bookmarked.