alt Hacker NewsIt's inevitable that one of the major cloud providers will irrecoverably delete all customer data with one single fat-fingered command. Though in google's case I'll also consider the prophecy to be fulfilled if they delete their own data.
It will forever be known as The Great Oops.
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tokyobreakfast • today at 1:53 AM
That seems unlikely. Is Google run by one Homer Simpson?
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It's not inevitable, it's essentially impossible.
There are a few things that can cause tremendously widespread outages, essentially all of them network configuration changes. Actually deleting customer data is dramatically more difficult to the point of impossible - there are so many different services in so many different locations with so many layers of access control. There is no "one command" that can do such a thing - at the scale of a worldwide network of data centers there is no "rm -rf /".