You know what the worse thing about this is?<p>It is that the momentum of this &quot;put it in the cloud&quot; will carry over to late-comers like government&#x2F;s, who will dump huge swaths of personal data that should never sit in a &quot;public-cloud&quot; because even when the IT-sec guy warned against it, some x-cloud-provider-sales-guy wooed the thick-headed upper-aboves and then ... attacks on that &quot;public-cloud&quot; will become wholesale with some script-kiddy (it could even be a 13 year old running a script) will then have personally identifiable info of x-amount of citizens.<p>Managing infrastructure is a controllable-cost for any company, and if your company is not doing it right, that should indicate a bigger inefficiency problem in the organization (as a whole).