It should not be understated how bad this is. Your #1 expectation as a cloud database provider is to keep data safe and recoverable.
I hope for at least their sake they took a backup of everyone's DB that could be restored in another region, but based on the fact that they didn't do a scream test, I doubt they thought about this either.
This must have been forced upon by upper management, because there is no way someone along the chain to actually delete data did not suggest a scream test. No way someone didn't say "this is a terrible idea, email is not reliable".
Adding Influx right next to GCP of providers I'm never using. Self-hosting is the way, and use ClickHouse.
I hope for at least their sake they took a backup of everyone's DB that could be restored in another region, but based on the fact that they didn't do a scream test, I doubt they thought about this either.
This must have been forced upon by upper management, because there is no way someone along the chain to actually delete data did not suggest a scream test. No way someone didn't say "this is a terrible idea, email is not reliable".
Adding Influx right next to GCP of providers I'm never using. Self-hosting is the way, and use ClickHouse.