I think 3 way redundancy would be about right for a massive, mission critical government cloud. Apart from fail-over/redundancy benefits, it would avoid lock-i

I think 3 way redundancy would be about right for a massive, mission critical government cloud. Apart from fail-over/redundancy benefits, it would avoid lock-in and drastically improve negotiating leverage that could force ongoing competitivenes and accountability. The effort could be open sourced, which would have industry-wide economic benefits.