If you are a business, or even an individual, and you are starting to think about backup, there is a good chance you are going to consider cloud backup or storage providers. This article is intended to be a brief introduction on the how, when, and why to choose a provider, and why choosing a storage product is a bigger question than it seems.

At the end of this article, you will have a better idea of how your choice of storage provider factors into future cloud services adoption, and how to choose one that fits your needs.

What follows is a brief tale of cloud adoption caution, and describes what happens when AWS makes something better, you don’t update your code, and your builds start failing sometime in the future because of it.