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Fire destroys Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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This is a clear example where 'the cloud' really is a physical place.
What else would it be? What do people think the cloud is?
For a long while, I had hoped it was at least 6 physical places, with various redundancies. A few billion small-ish servers at internet network hubs.
That or the magical floating bits that go over hackers heads in the movies. Those also look like the cloud. Not very secure, but quite convenient.
Well, a properly managed cloud storage service very much should be multiple locations with redundant copies of data lol yes. So you're not wrong in that.