[ncruces]

“The BBC understands that customers, through various backup technologies, external, were able to recover all lost data.”

You backup stuff. To other regions.

[littlestymaar]

But the Korean government didn't backup, that's the problem in the first place here…

[ncruces]

Sure. Using a cloud can make that more convenient. But obviously not so if you then keep all your data in the same region, or even “availability-zone” (which seems to be the case for the all “lost to lightening strikes” data here).