Request to provide a feature to perform hard delete of instances in FDM

Hi Team,

I would like to request for a new feature from Cognite to provide the hard delete options of instances in FDM.

Currently, the instances are by default soft deleted and if the soft delete instances limit is reached, no further ingestion is allowed in the Project.

Issues faced in the past - We have a shared Cognite Project, which is being used by multiple teams, and one team was in process of migrating their data from SQL to Cognite FDM. In the process, transformations run successfully but few data were corrupted. So, they deleted the entire FDM dataset and performed the transformation again. Meanwhile the soft delete instances limit was reached, making the ingestion failure for all the teams using that project.

Here, the first team wants to hard delete the instances however, with no option currently available left them with no choices. And the similar incident has occurred again.

Hence, we are requesting to provide a feature to perform hard delete of instances, considering the performing party holds the complete accountability of the activity.