Google made a giant mistake just lately. The corporate by accident erased the personal Google Cloud account of a $125 billion Australian pension fund, UniSuper.
The end result: greater than half one million UniSuper fund members had no entry to their accounts for a few week, The Guardian reported final week. UniSuper had a backup account with one other cloud supplier, and repair was restored Could 2.
“That is an remoted, ‘one-of-a-kind prevalence’ that has by no means earlier than occurred with any of Google Cloud’s purchasers globally,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and UniSuper CEO Peter Chun mentioned in a joint assertion obtained by The Guardian Could 8. “This could not have occurred. Google Cloud has recognized the occasions that led to this disruption and brought measures to make sure this doesn’t occur once more.”
Whereas Google mentioned the error has by no means occurred earlier than on the cloud, the chance for glitches and outages are trigger for concern for firms and governments that more and more transfer their information to cloud software program suppliers. Google Cloud counts about 60% of the world’s 1,000 greatest firms and 90% of generative AI unicorns as its prospects, the corporate mentioned this yr. And almost half one million firms throughout the globe use Google Cloud as a “platform-as-a-service,” or client-facing device, together with Volkswagen and Royal Financial institution of Canada.
The U.S. authorities and intelligence communities have more and more used cloud companies for information storage. The Nationwide Safety Company inked a $10 billion cope with Amazon to maneuver its intelligence surveillance information onto the corporate’s cloud. And the Pentagon has a $9 billion contract with Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and Amazon for cloud computing companies.
This text initially appeared on Quartz.
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