You need to treat a commodity like a commodity. It's perfectly OK to run business-critical processes in someone's cloud, as long as you have a fully automated p

You need to treat a commodity like a commodity. It's perfectly OK to run business-critical processes in someone's cloud, as long as you have a fully automated process that will deploy your entire environment from the latest backup to any set of cloud nodes at any cloud provider you point it to. Unless you're doing that, you're just shifting risks, not eliminating them.