Hi, I'm Geoff and I've spent the last five years in the Amazon Cloud Mines for House Benioff (words: "Dreamforce is coming"), rising from exaulted Erlang programmer to lowly System Architect / Whiteboard Artist in Residence. With your patience I should like to wax lyrical about the virtues of compliance programs, talk about the aspects of security that the cloud makes easy, those the cloud makes hard, ponder a unix analogy for an age-old thological problem, and perhaps dispense free startup ideas. Oh, and throw a modicum of shade at vendors who still seem to roll like it's 2003, selling virtual pizza box appliances in the AMI marketplace.