Nothing's perfect? But theres a lot of orders of magnitude difference in investment in what most companies can and will do versus what a hyperscaler will! And

Nothing's perfect? But theres a lot of orders of magnitude difference in investment in what most companies can and will do versus what a hyperscaler will! And while your company is a single petri dish with your own specific problems, these folks have to see a lot of shit. Sometimes yes it all goes bad even there anyways! The resiliency fails! But given how much they've thought about it & how much they've hedged against 1 in a million 1 in a billion cases that they see semi regularly that your company might never notice until it's too late, I think there's a ton of reasons to trust these generally very well exercises systems with pretty sizable engineering teams & deployments behind them. More so than what most folks can bring to bear. These matters are existential threats for your business. And they are existential threats for big providers, for HyperScalers, even more so. Google very publicly owned up to UniSuper, found out why it happened (a blank form on an internal tool lead to the account having a 1 year time limit with auto-deletion), and publicly announced their three fold plan to make sure at least this specific horribly threat would never happen again: > We deprecated the internal tool that triggered this sequence of events… We scrubbed the system database and manually reviewed all GCVE Private Clouds… We corrected the system behavior that sets GCVE Private Clouds for deletion for such deployment workflows. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/details-of-google-cloud-gcve-incident/ https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/detail... The mere fact that this was such a notable event should be itself notable. In general, the hyperscalers have been stupendously reliable. And absurdly secure. They have small armies dedicated insuring both. I look forward to this new era where finally we might have computing of our own good enough & broadly known & trusted enough to make doing our own - even with small teams - viable!! But heavens yes, keep off-site backups!!!