Is it safe to assume that once you've used a backup of an old phone to restore a new one that you can delete the old backup? I am running out of "cloud" space and want to free up space

I purchased an additional 20gb of storage and I am getting a message that I am out of space on the cloud to backup my Iphone or my iPad. When I checked my settings it seems like it's because my old iPhone backup is still being stored. Since I used my old lphone4 backup to load my new iPhone5s would it be safe to say that I can delete that backup now since all the info that was on that phone has been transferred to my iPhone5s. This way I can free up storage in my icloud (instead of buying additional storage?)

Hi Mcchen425,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
As a precaution, I would suggest backing up your iPhone to your computer via iTunes as well as iCloud. Then you can delete one of your two backups. The article below will explain all of your options for deleting data or backups from your iCloud storage.
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
iCloud: Managing your iCloud storage
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4847
Cheers,
- Judy

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