We are interviewing cloud providers to host servers (not applications) and are looking for good questions to ask to help us make the best decision. Given similar pricing and SLA, what else would you look for or what have you experienced?
Here’s a few:
1. How transparent is the cloud vendor in sharing SLA performance?
2. If the vendor drops the ball and misses SLA performance objectives, are you compensated?
3. Do you provide a standard annual termination for convenience?
4. What level of operational transparency do we get? (example below)
    a. Monitoring and operational management
5. Security and Compliance Requirements
   a. capabilities and policies for protecting data
6. Vendors Disaster Recovery Plan?