Well, then it's excellent they are learning this now and not later. The best time to learn about making backups is when you start programming, the second best time is today.

Then they need to learn!

It’s a good thing those students have access to thousands of dollars of free credit for AWS/Digital Ocean/Azure, etc.

Not to mention if whatever they are working does take off, those companies would throw extra credits to these students.

I think they’ll be fine.