Or even better, when handling such info, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are the safest choices.
Before Google's mistake, it was Australia's mistake to trust a foreign company at all.
The real question is...where was the $135 billion for two weeks? Who collected the interest? Follow the money trail guys, then you have some robust answers. Who stands to benefit from these computer bugs?
@bill - there was no money involved. What was deleted were records, applications, everything needed to run the company. The money remained in the bank, or wherever the company kept it.
135 billion dollars at a rate of 5% per annum gives approximately 258 million dollars of net profit in 2 weeks, if it is possible to deposit this amount in the Central Bank at%...))
mmm that cloud kool aid tastes grear
lets hand over all our mission criticsl data to a company with ever changing managemen, support staffing and processes etc
wheres the data? who cares!
what are they able to do with the data? who knows!
are we at the mercy of their support? who cares!
what are their restore speed times? who knows!
and on it goes
reminds me of the recent "indestructible" azure cloud failure in sydney where they had no local staff with the skills to remediate despite technical architecture redundancies etc