[_2d30]

Yeah backups would’ve been totally useless in this case. All South Korea could’ve done is restore their data from the backups and avoid data loss.

[littlestymaar]

What part of the incident did you miss: the problem here was that they didn't backup in the first place.

You don't need the Cloud for backups, and there's no reason to believe that they would have backuped their data while using the cloud more than what they did with their self-hosting…