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by Thorrez 1959 days ago
>Soft deletion implies that once data is marked as such, it is destroyed after a reasonable delay. The length of the delay depends upon an organization’s policies and applicable laws, available storage resources and cost, and product pricing and market positioning, especially in cases involving much short-lived data. Common choices of soft deletion delays are 15, 30, 45, or 60 days.

https://sre.google/sre-book/data-integrity/#first-layer-soft...

I work at Google, not on anything related to this though.