Of course, the majority of these feature are shared by most or all of the very "biggest competitor" cloud providers they are comparing themselves with, and in m

Of course, the majority of these feature are shared by most or all of the very "biggest competitor" cloud providers they are comparing themselves with, and in many cases more effectively than this tiny company possibly can. So that's a bit misleading, to claim these as competitive advantages. The corporate structure point is interesting, but I'm skeptical about its legal efficacy. The part that's most interesting to me is the part of #1 where they say "sole root/administrative access" and "we have no file system level access". Is this actually technically possible, given that it's not just storage (obligatory props to Tarsnap!), but actual computing? I mean, I know that there are encryption schemes that allow you to do certain particular kinds of transformation on the encrypted data without unencrypting it... but isn't it impossible to do what they say, run a generalized IaaS/PaaS, without being able to see your data? In summary, is there a single competitive advantage here this is all of * actually a competitive difference, and * is actually possible, and * actually has any effect ?