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[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 132 points 1 year ago

This should not have happened. Google Cloud has identified the events that led to this disruption and taken measures to ensure this does not happen again.”

Our AI golem destroyed something important again, but we’re too big to fail so our mistakes don’t matter.

We promise it won’t happen again, but when it does happen again, it still won’t matter.

We’re a totally safe and responsible company and should be trusted with most of the world’s data management.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

AI golem

immediately pictured a living stolen golem roaming the data centre smashing stuff, while google engineers try and reason with it

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

That's Elon at Twitter. He was the one yanking cables.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Good thing Twitter only hosts useless garbage.

[-] SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

We promise it won’t happen again, but when it does happen again, it still won’t matter.

Rest assured that when it does, we will make every effort to promise once more that it won't happen again.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

That's a big relief

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

No no no, they're right, it won't happen again.

...but something with a very similar outcome due to a very similar, but not identical, root cause...well, no guarantees I guess.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

Exactly the sort of thing that should NEVER be on a 3rd party system. Ever. Ever ever.

Grumpy old sysadmin. Get offa my lawn!

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 60 points 1 year ago

My wife and I talk about this. We make a mistake and the smackdown comes in a torrent of fines and interest and instant loss of things we need. Corp makes a mistake and oopsie daisy.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I have to imagine there will at least be a lawsuit here. It will probably amount to a rounding error on the size of the fund though.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago
[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago
[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

That too.

Wondering if they maybe divested Google, lol.

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"Reaped" is the word Google are using.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 33 points 1 year ago

I have my electricity billed directly to my bank account, I hadn't noticed that they haven't charged me for months, and last week I received a payment notification for ~900€. I was... Surprised, to say the least.

I think some things should require human intervention.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Why I will not trust autopay.

[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

There's a phrase you might give useful/insightful.

"Trust, but verify"

I use auto pay extensively so that if I forget (ADHD, yay) it still gets paid. But I do (try to) check every month that all the auto pay stuff did trigger properly.

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Also ADHD here. I only use autopay for static payments. Stuff like internet, car payment, etc. Variable ones like credit card payments I choose to manually pay, so I force myself to look at it and make sure I didnt get charged for anything weird. Otherwise, my ADHD will basically never force me to actually go check the accounts, like, ever.

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[-] MrNesser@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Now I'm wondering if they can recover this from a backup or archive OR if that's going to be an awkward call to their insurance company.

[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

Well, if you bothered reading into the second paragraph, you'd have more info:

UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2.

So Google doesn't keep (unpaid) backups for it's clients, and the ones UniSuper paid for were deleted along with everything else.

[-] MrNesser@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Reading an article ! How dare you sir !

[-] nogooduser@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ain’t nobody got time for that!

[-] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Amazing how Google doesn't get product management right

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago

Or a panicked call from their insurance company. "You have a backup, right???"

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

It was restored a week ago. All it did was prevent people from logging into their accounts for a few days.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

Only because they restored from a separate backup with a different provider, not Google restoring a backup.

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They're already back online, and they managed to do it without missing a pension payment.

[-] modus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

From the article, "UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2."

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[-] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

Somehow I'm imagining some lowly overworked, outsourced account reviewer decided to apply the strictest consequence for some minor violation on the account and screw his employer for making his life a living hell and underpaying him.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Man, this fuckup is such a gift to salespeople at AWS, Azure, to anyone selling on-prem solutions, or any kind of redundancy/backup plans.

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

I think that people will start learning this the hard way about the cloud. Some things are too important to trust to store on someone else's computer.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

What if I told you "the cloud" is just someone else's computer.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Are there actually people out there that think differently than this? This is not a revelation.

[-] Restaldt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yes

They are called CEO CIO or CTO

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, I think many people think otherwise, even in tech. To many "the cloud" is some sort of magical, mystical place data can go. And companies selling cloud services perpetuate the myth.

This is a revelation to many people.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t buy this. Companies like the cloud because they know their data is going to computers that they don’t have to manage.

On premise means they need to manage the hardware. It means they need a staff on hand to maintain the hardware. They have to deal with all of those issues them selves.

I am in tech consulting and I’ve never met a customer that didn’t understand what cloud actually is.

Even my boomer relatives know this and they know jack shit about the tech world.

[-] ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Most people have never given it any thought. Their photos are stored on iCloud, if you pushed them you might get them to think about it and then they would realize it's just another computer, but most people have never even considered where the pictures go.

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[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. There are at least two people in the world that believe that it’s magic in the air.

Edited for plurality.

[-] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

All this does is highlight best practice for data backups. Accidents happen, be prepared.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

"accidentally"

[-] cupcakezealot 7 points 1 year ago

just like i accidently forgot to mail my rent check on time.

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