I do understand the part where they terminated and killed of the VMs. I do not, at all, understand why they deleted the backups. How can the CEO sit in his chai

I do understand the part where they terminated and killed of the VMs. I do not, at all, understand why they deleted the backups. How can the CEO sit in his chair and make that decision? If he didn't and he doesn't know, why is he still in that chair? Even damn Netflix preserves data for 10 months. Deleting backups is making 100% sure that the customer doesn't come back to you. It's amazingly stupid. Unless you're as smart and as big as Google, use the damn phone. Don't use the word automated at all. It's not automated if one fool made a decision and another one wrote the script.