If you were buying datacenter space instead of cloud resources, you would expect each datacenter to report to you quarterly that they had run their backup gener

If you were buying datacenter space instead of cloud resources, you would expect each datacenter to report to you quarterly that they had run their backup generator tests and fixed any problems that occurred. You would also expect to be told in advance about network maintenance and other foreseeable service issues. Cloud vendors, of course, get to hide all that from you until something goes wrong.