More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed.
I use AWS to host a far amount of servers and some micro services and for them if you don’t build the backup into your architecture design and the live data gets corrupted, etc you are screwed.
They give you the tools to built it all, but it is up to you as the sysadmin/engineer/ dev to actually use those tools.