Sure you can. As the experienced engineer in that setting it is a great opportunity to teach the less experienced engineers. For example, "I have seen data loss on S3 at my last job. If X, Y, or Z happen then we will lose data. Is this data we can lose? And actually, it is pretty easy to replicate - I think we could get this done in a day or two."
It's also possible the response was "That's an excellent point! I think we should put that on the backlog. Since this data is already a backup of our DB data, I think we should focus on getting the feature out rather than replicating to GCP."
Those are two plausible conversations. Instead, what we have is "these arrogant 25 year olds that have 1-2 years of experience and know it all." That's a red flag to me.