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What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?

UniSuper, an Australian superannuation fund, faced a major outage and blamed Google Cloud for the incident. The exact details of what happened remain unclear, but there are suggestions that a misconfiguration during the provisioning of UniSuper's Private Cloud and operator error may have contributed to the deletion of the private cloud.

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May 15, 2024•6m read time•From danielcompton.net
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What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?What was deleted?How did everything get deleted?How was it deleted?Maybe it was a Google Cloud bug?Conclusion
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