<i>&gt;Export your critical data from SaaS services if you&#x27;re business cannot exists without them</i><p>You know, my thinking on this has really changed. Consider how many relatively successful life-forms cannot exist without a very specific other species of life. It is <i>also</i> a good strategy to be flexible with your dependencies - but I think nature proves it&#x27;s not required to survive and thrive.<p>Taking the long view, it&#x27;s interesting to consider the possibility (which I&#x27;m sure has already happened multiple times in tech and elsewhere) when a company has absorbed it&#x27;s dependency, and also when a dependency absorbs what was, at first, it&#x27;s host, and successfully so.<p>The one thing that throws a monkey wrench into all of this is centralized human control, and a single mind is notoriously ephemeral, changing, and emotional. The CEO of your dependency might wake up one day from a terrible dream of humiliation and failure, and decide that he can&#x27;t and won&#x27;t just exist to serve his wretched, ungrateful customers in some insignificant and petty way, and will instead take a completely different path! (This risk is why greedy sociopaths make excellent corporate leaders: their drives are stable, predictable and unemotional, which makes them both competent and, ironically, safe.)