foord member t: I don't trust the cloud, plain and simple. We're putting our data on their hardware, but how do we know their hardware is safe? How do we know their services will be available 24 like we need? Your Goud providers employ a variety of techniques to ensure their services are aaailable nearly all the time. Some of the biggeit providers guarantee their services are available 99.99s of the time or better. We can do some research to choose one or more providers that will give us the reliablily we need. Board nember 2: 'One or more providers? For what reason might we want to use more than one provider? You Clovd technologies are changing so quickly, we might decide to use two or even three doud prowiders so we can reduce This will make it easier to migrate to a different cloud provider in the future if sameone else offers cheaper senices or better-quality service or some kind of new technology that no one else has yet. Aloord member is As you said, cloud computing is changing very quickly these days. Wonz this create a tremendows amount of work for your team to keep up with the constant fluctuations in doud services and features? Vou The best cloud platforms offer extenswe automation services. We can design our cloud wath evaluate our tlouds performance and make automatic changes to improve performance and minimite costs