I guess Google no longer gets the same high they used to get from merely shutting down their own products, so they have now moved on to shutting down other peoples' products.

We’ve had our google cloud account frozen without an explanation or advance notice. Google has just this really unshakable reputation of being risky. We now host only non-critical secondary infrastructure there

> UniSuper said it lost cloud infrastructure in “two geographies”, a configuration it believed should have kept it safer in an outage situation.

But in the end, it's still a single system. As can be seen here. So it might help you when the DC burns down but it won't protect you from software bugs of your cloud provider.

What a nightmare! At least they thought ahead to have backups on another provider. Does GCE not have deletion protection for databases, etc?

See discussion from yesterday too (with a much less alarming title)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304666

Wonder if Google will be on the hook liability and/or damages wise?

And yet my Google Wallet data going back 10 years is still around with no way for me to mass delete it.

[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313171