In May 2024, Google accidentally deleted the private cloud of a multi-billion dollar fund in Australia, causing an unprecedented outage.

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:25 - UniSuper Use Case
1:56 - Google VMWare Engine
3:03 - The Outage
6:24 - Sus Google Tool
7:23 - Backups
8:18 - Backup Song

Notes:
1. Some report on an “account being deleted” or a “subscription being deleted” or “multiple (2) clouds being deleted” however under “Scope of the Impact” from the Google postmortem, it is clear that it was a single GCVE cloud in one region stretched over two zones that was deleted (https://cloud.google.com/vmware-engin.... However that is not very appealing to the less cloud-savvy masses, hence the titles of the articles and this video.
2. The specifics behind why UniSuper needed Google to manually create their GCVE cloud is not publicly known. The RAM limit in the video serves as an example.
3. The external provider with the backups was most likely Azure not AWS as pictured in the video but it's hard to know for sure so w/e (https://fst.net.au/financial-services...) "Despite the prominence of Google Cloud in its all-cloud transition, Cooper confirmed that the company is committed to a multi-cloud strategy, already utilising Microsoft Azure to operate its digital and integration platforms."

Sources:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/product...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia...
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/unisup...
https://www.fudzilla.com/news/memory-...
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https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...
https://www.investmentmagazine.com.au...

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