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The cloud is just someone else's computer.
Absolutely not. That data should be in at least two places. A local and a remote is the general setup. If a cloud provider is the main source of the data, the 'remote' location would probably be your house. ;p
The first rule of uptime is never have only one of something critical, including providers.
"I put my carton of eggs in the fridge, and the fridge fell over, breaking all of my eggs."
„I put my carton of eggs in two Amazon fridges on two different continents”
Well, it seem damned easy for Amazon to just delete the fridges, so it being on two different continents really didn't matter, did it?
Yes, that’s what this blog post is about :)