I think you're taking the analogy too literally. Of course there are certain dimensions where they differ; that's true of any analogy. OP's point is that in both cloud computing and banks, trust is the product.
The OP was the one who said "there's no FDIC protection for cloud", so..... ;-)
> trust is the product
Well, to be fair, too many people put too much trust in the cloud.
"upload all your data to us, we promise we won't look at it"
"trust our key-management service where we too have access to the private-key/API"
etc. etc.
I wouldn't "trust" any of them further than I can throw a 1U server.
