Comment by Lumoscore

Wow. That is genuinely one of the most terrifying headlines I've read all year.

Seriously, "no backups available" for a national government's main cloud storage? That’s not a simple IT oversight; that’s an epic, unforgivable institutional mistake.

It completely exposes the biggest fear everyone in tech has: putting all the eggs in one big physical basket.

I mean, we all know the rule: if it exists in only one place, it doesn't really exist. If your phone breaks, you still have your photos on a different server, right? Now imagine that basic, common-sense rule being ignored for a country’s central data.

The fire itself is a disaster, but the real catastrophe is the planning failure. They spent millions on a complex cloud system, but they skipped the $5 solution: replicating the data somewhere else—like in a different city, or even just another building across town.

Years of official work, policy documents, and data—just gone, literally up in smoke, because they violated the most fundamental rule of data management. This is a massive, expensive, painful lesson for every government and company in the world: your fancy cloud setup is worthless if your disaster recovery plan is just "hope the building doesn't burn down." It’s an infrastructure nightmare.