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		jiscariot on Aug 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest... That is eerily similar to what happened to us in IBM "Cloud", in a previous gig. An engineer was doing "account cleanup" and somehow our account got on the list and all our resources were blown away. The most interesting conversation was convincing the support person, that those deletion audit events were in fact not us, but rather (according to the engineer's Linked-In page) an SRE at IBM.

CTDOCodebases on Aug 17, 2023 | [–]

Although it probably wasn't funny at the time I can imagine how comical that conversation was.

Thinking about it further the term "cloud" is a good metaphor for storing files on someone else's computer because clouds just disappear.

ownagefool on Aug 17, 2023 | [–]

This was ~14 years ago and both MS & AWS had loss of data incidents iirc.

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