In a post-mortem of the incident, an unnamed blog author blamed the deletion on an internal tool used in 2023 to set up Unisuper's Google Cloud VMware Engine Private Cloud (GCVE). Furthermore, there was no warning to the customer because of the internal Google tool being used for the deployment of the Private Cloud." The accidental deletion of Unisuper's cloud instance made the news all over the world, and Google Cloud chief executive Thomas Kurian had to front up for the misconfiguration and apologise. Google Cloud was at pains to say the auto-deletion of Unisuper's cloud is not a systemic issue and that no other GCVE deployments are at risk. The system behaviour that set Unisuper's cloud to be automatically deleted has also been corrected, Google Cloud said.

Source: Stuff May 27, 2024 04:50 UTC