It blows me away that this even needs to be said. You have precisely zero control over anything in the cloud, ever. Your provider is free to lie to you, scan or

It blows me away that this even needs to be said. You have precisely zero control over anything in the cloud, ever. Your provider is free to lie to you, scan or monetize your data, use anything you "own" to make competing products, etc. and the only protection you have is a thin ToS that likely mandates arbitration if it gives you any rights whatsoever. Most B2C cloud ToS documents reserve all rights to the provider. You own nothing and control nothing, peon. B2B can be better but it's still pretty meaningless unless you have negotiated a specific side document or contract. That'll never happen unless you are a big spender. If you aren't a high roller there's numerous cases of cloud and SaaS providers destroying businesses by randomly changing things, locking accounts for no reason, etc. There is nothing you can do to compel them to care. There is a reason for all this though. The market's "revealed preference" is that people hate system administration so much they will trade all rights, all freedom, all privacy, and control/ownership of their own data as well as pay rent forever with zero leverage to control cost increases to avoid dealing with it. The market has written cloud and SaaS an almost literal blank check in exchange for them taking on the hateful burden of system administration and IT.