---
title: "What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-went-wrong-with-unisuper-and-google-cloud--md8sowfkq
source_url: https://danielcompton.net/google-cloud-unisuper
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-05-15T15:37:49.515Z
updated: 2024-05-15T15:37:47.709Z
tags: ["cloud", "gcp"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

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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