Google's Cloud Platform Accidentally Deletes UniSuper's Customer Account

SOURCE www.axios.com
Google's cloud platform accidentally deleted the entire customer account of UniSuper, a $135 billion Australian pension fund, but some backups were salvageable. This incident highlights the importance of having multiple redundancies.

Key Points

  • Importance of having multiple redundancies for data backups.

Pros

  • Some of UniSuper's backups were salvageable.
  • The pension fund was able to recover its data.

Cons

  • The incident could have led to data loss if all backups were erased.