But with most cloud installations, if you want to go elsewhere, you just pull down the drive image, install elsewhere, and you're done. That's certainly the case with Azure.


>That is different. I know a few other places who did/are doing that, but that's a server farm where you can own the hardware (if you want), you don't get just a time-space-share in some anonymous computing space, you get something tangible, and you can even go there and take your machine elsewhere if you want. IOW, you have the control while you have outsourced the maintenance and physical location. I don't see how you can have that level of control over your slice of the cloud.