5 articles tagged with Disaster Recovery.
On October 20, 2026, europe-west2-b lost power when its generators never started. Cross-zone control-plane timeouts then degraded the whole London region. What happened and the gcloud audit to run now.
GitLab lost six hours of data to one command on the wrong host. Linear lost five hours to one TRUNCATE CASCADE in a reviewed migration. The six guardrails that make that kind of mistake hard to make and cheap to recover from.
AWS says it cannot restore data held only in Bahrain (me-south-1) or in one UAE zone. Multi-AZ gave availability, not recovery, and only cross-region copies survived.
The architectural choice is presented as binary; the practical answer is "depends on the workload." The patterns that earn their place and the failure modes to plan for.
Backups are easy. Restores are hard. A quarterly restore drill, what typically breaks during it, and the discipline that makes "we have backups" actually mean something.
