Comment Re:Don't buy any servers. Use the cloud. (Score 1) 600
Fortunately, they're both publicly-traded companies who are required by law to disclose their financials. Google and Amazon are both doing fine, and wouldn't simply pull the plug on any of their managed services if they wanted to retain any of their customers in the future, no matter how bad their financial situation might get.
You'd be better off writing a contingency plan for what your business will do if a plague of locusts arrives, or if the US is invaded by Zimbabwe. The idea of Google or Amazon going belly-up with no warning is completely and totally outlandish. You cannot control for every variable -- you're best off focusing on your most likely, and most easily manageable sources of failure.
Managers need to let go of their "control freak" mentality. More often than not, it hurts the people that they are supposed to be managing, and does nothing to improve productivity. (See Also: Lotus Notes. It's infinitely customizable, so there's really no limit to how bad it can get.)