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I did mentally "ouch" when I read this but this is one of the problems with all this cloud stuff - you have less control. It's much, much easier for many organisations to spin things up in the cloud rather than build these services in their own infrastructure (like you used to have to do in the old days and wasn't without its own problems).
It's not weird or even new anymore. Many techy companies are doing ALL their business in the cloud. But you still have to think about data governance and retention. I'd be worried about their code too. That's the crown jewels and that's likely to be in github or bitbucket (specialised cloud code repositories ). What controls do they have against a naive or errant user deleting those?! My heart is racing just a little bit faster even just contemplating that. Have they set up a regular github backup?
Are you thinking"oh this doesn't apply to me"? OK, but when did you (or your clients) last back up xero or sage cloud .. ? And if you are a bigger organisation with an in-house IT team, ask them when they last tested backup and recovery (as in actually retrieved a backup and reinstated it, not just eyeballed the logfiles)?
Funny, I though a "github" was me, that curmudgeonly old git of a husband that hides behind the computer rather than helping "goodwife" with the housework.