Google praises UniSuper’s CIO after GCP error deleted $124 billion firm’s entire private cloud

Post-mortem praises Aussie fund's good third-party backups, “speed and precision” from CIO’s team 

Google praises UniSuper’s CIO after GCP error deleted $124 billion firm’s entire private cloud

In 2023 an Australian fund migrated thousands of VMs onto GCP. On May 2, 2024, the cloud provider deleted the entire Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) environment, including failovers, with no warning.