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Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too

Google cloud ceo says "it won't happen anymore", it's insane that there's the possibility of "instant delete everything"

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[–] newthrowaway20 9 points 5 months ago

It's not the tools that offer protection. It's the practices and redundancies that matter. How often are you making secondary and tertiary backups, are those backups stashed in different locations and on different media?

This business owner made the right move by not relying on a single source for backups. Too many people and small businesses don't think like that. They assume one backup is enough.

If it's really important, you should be following the 321 backup rule, no matter if you're using Google cloud or the old gateway in a closet. Without multiple backups, you're always putting your eggs in one basket. It doesn't matter how much you trust that basket, it's a dumb idea to only rely on one backup for anything important, even if its Google cloud or AWS.