“This should not have happened.”
Duh, ya think?
Google Sales Engineer: oh I see you didn’t purchase the “Do not randomly nuke my cloud” option… well there’s the problem.
But you can’t trust regular people to have open source ASI, but don’t worry, we won’t fuck it up.
Yeah, this has definitely happened before, we just don’t hear about it in the news. I am personally aware of a Canadian non-profit whose Google accounts were nuked with no notice or explanation last year, leading to massive disruptions for 150 staff and even more clients. They never found out why, and had to restore from backups onto a brand new Google business account
had to restore from backups onto a brand new Google business account
Thus proving that they learned nothing from the experience.
Whoopsie my bad guys
Google Cloud counts about 60% of the world’s 1,000 biggest companies and 90% of generative AI unicorns as its customers
What exactly are generative AI unicorns?
I believe in this context unicorn refers to start-ups that are valued at at least a billion dollars (or some number, I forget). So basically AI start-ups.
Makes sense, thank you
Backup was on Azure. I get the sentiment on the cloud, but there is no excuse for this incompetence at Google.
Is there anyone here who’s worked as an engineer for Google, by chance? I’d honestly like to know about their work culture and how they would deal with stuff like this internally. Like, are the line managers understanding, or are they just screaming at their employees if shit hits the fan?
Critical support
Waiting for the news “Google deleted users account, now they lost access to their passkeys and with that to all other services” It can only be a matter of days until it happens.
Happened all the time over on r/androiddev. Small company brings on the wrong person/uses the wrong SDK/wrongfully fails an review and their account is then banned via “association”, which then propagates down to countless other employees. Only way out is to hope and pray that a human sees the appeal or try and blow up online
Happened so often in fact that the subreddit even created several guides on how to avoid it. My favourite part is that even unpublished apps must be updated in perpetuity to abide by Google’s ever changing requirements
Or this other occasion where viewers of one of the most popular YouTubers in the world were banned for typing in chat
These software guys literally get paid on salary and even get time to spare, the need to fear monger and threaten to destroy people’s livelihoods when you run a huge portion of internet services just shows that they’re not exactly the type to “do no evil”
Read it again, they never removed it. It moved to the end.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-dont-be-evil/254019/
Is this the same one as a few days ago, or a second?
Same one about the retirement fund operator from Australia.
Meh. Not all Indians lol
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The company accidentally erased the private Google Cloud account of a $125 billion Australian pension fund, UniSuper.
“This is an isolated, ‘one-of-a-kind occurrence’ that has never before occurred with any of Google Cloud’s clients globally,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and UniSuper CEO Peter Chun said in a joint statement obtained by The Guardian May 8.
Google Cloud has identified the events that led to this disruption and taken measures to ensure this does not happen again.”
And nearly half a million companies across the globe use Google Cloud as a “platform-as-a-service,” or client-facing tool, including Volkswagen and Royal Bank of Canada.
The National Security Agency inked a $10 billion deal with Amazon to move its intelligence surveillance data onto the company’s cloud.
And the Pentagon has a $9 billion contract with Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and Amazon for cloud computing services.
The original article contains 272 words, the summary contains 141 words. Saved 48%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
It has happened before. They just swept it under the rug and blamed the client.
A user was setting up a new laptop and synced an empty folder with google drive, intending to download accounts data to their machine. It bugged and treated the empty folder as the master and began erasing the drive contents.
After two weeks of pestering google, they relented and pulled from their backups they swore they didn’t have and didn’t exist.
19 billion dollars and they can’t do it themselves? They need Amazon and Microsoft?
Much cheaper to have an external company do these things sometimes
It also lets you pass the buck in case of issues from a manager’s perspective.
Good way to pay your informants.
Did they mistake it for one of their own services people were using?
😂
Does this mean we can put that account on https://killedbygoogle.com/ ?
yes
We need to have something like reddit gold. but the money goes to a charity of your choice, and whoever you golded gets a badge next to their comment. I’d do that to this if I could.
Just give a Lemmy Lemon 🍋 and donate to the charity of your choice.
But how would a capitalist benefit from that?
Sigh. That is the world we live in.
Or we could just add the Yeah button from the Miiverse
Fucking gold!
