I can't delete the backup from icloud.

Change my iphone4 to iphone4s,use the same icloud ID.
I restore the iphone4 backup from icloud to my iphone4s,and the iphone4 will not use any more.
Now,I can see two devices' backup in my icloud.
I try to delete the iphone4 backup from iphone4s,but failed may time,why?

I have the same scenario. Few days ago replaced my iphone 4 and got a new 4S. initially i logged in with the same apple id and restore from the iphone 4 backup..That gave me some glitches so i restored the phone and decided to setup as a new device. So now i wanted to delete the iphone4 backup from icloud. I've been trying from the phone and the icloud control panel and still not able to delete it. It gives an error that itrs being used to restore a device or is in use.
I've tried all sorts of combination, deleting from the ipad, iphone, turning icloud back on/off,, iheck i even went as far as to delete my icloud account but that doest do anything. When i recreated the account, all my data was still there,, Seems like there is no way to delete your data once on the cloud!!!!

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