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Comment by hosh

9 days ago

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.

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Imustaskforhelp  9 days ago

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.