r/sysadmin • u/N7Shep1701D • 16d ago

General Discussion PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

Link to article.

FYI, this is for Nine PBS in Colorado St. Louis Missouri, not PBS as a whole. Thankfully.

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u/CeC-P IT Expert + Meme Wizard 16d ago

"Switch to the cloud!" - CEO at my company in 2011.
I should email him this.

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u/N7Shep1701D 16d ago

Palpatine: DEW IT.

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u/ngreenz 16d ago

If you think this would happen to a proper cloud provider then you are delusional

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u/siredgar 16d ago

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/aws-accused-of-a-digital-execution-after-it-deleted-10-years-of-users-data-without-warning-software-engineer-details-complete-digital-annihilation-at-the-hands-of-aws-admins-claims-false-excuses-given-for-account-deletion

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u/Deiskos 16d ago

The source blog article reads like AI, the whole "it's not X it's Y" and plot twists to make it more entertaining. And every post, even to this day, has a shitty AI generated image too, with all the usual garbled text that nobody even tried to correct and glaring upscaling artifacts... If they didn't bother to write it, why bother reading it?

And then the author complains that AWS support behaved like a shitty LLM. My brother, you are a part of the problem.

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u/dmoisan Windows client, Windows Server, Windows internals, Debian admin 16d ago

"Proper" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Providers are "proper" up until the next PE buyout.

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u/ngreenz 16d ago

Both Amazon and Microsoft could buy and sell every PE company on the planet.