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Bunny.net silent data loss spans 15 months
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Bunny.net silent data loss spans 15 months

Bunny.net is under fire after reports surfaced of persistent, silent data loss affecting millions of files over a 15-month period. Files successfully upload and replicate but vanish hours later without appearing in audit logs, pointing to severe architectural flaws in the storage engine's consistency model.

// ANALYSIS

This is the ultimate infrastructure nightmare: data that successfully "saves" but silently disappears without a trace or audit trail.

  • Internal logs show no deletion commands, suggesting a failure in the underlying garbage collection or replication logic rather than an API error.
  • The 15-month resolution window reveals a massive failure in support escalation for complex, low-frequency but high-impact bugs.
  • Rapid product expansion into databases and security might have diverted engineering focus from core storage stability and technical debt.
  • Developers using Bunny for production assets should immediately verify their backup and verification loops, as "replication" clearly failed here.
  • This incident serves as a stark warning about the risks of opaque "black box" storage layers in managed cloud services.
// TAGS
bunny-netcloudsafetydata-tools

DISCOVERED

2d ago

2026-04-10

PUBLISHED

2d ago

2026-04-09

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

AUTHOR

speckx