[izacus]

Those cloud specialists aren't configuring your ACLs and firewalls - the most common source of severe security problems in the cloud.

[hypeatei]

Yes, there is a concept of "shared responsibility" in the cloud. Obviously the provider is going to handle some things and you have to take care of others.

[izacus]

Yes, and those "others" are massively more complex and hard to get right than on non-cloud deployments.