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Cloud based backups or backup as a service are really not as secure and reliable as what I can build myself. Let's start with you, Chris. What you've seen, and then we'll turn it over to Matt. Yeah, it's a great question. I think at the end of the day, you know, you have to look at it and think, if you're a vendor that builds these sort of solutions in the cloud, you know, you're not going to build something that isn't going to be secure. You're not going to build something that isn't going to deliver what the client wants, because it's your bread and butter. So, you know, you're going to you're going to know how to build this sort of solution. You're going to make it work. Um, the cloud providers who who build these sort of backup services, people like Druva and other, um, similar companies. Security is going to be one of their main focuses, because clearly they're dealing with many customers. They have to handle things like multi-tenancy, and they have to have that ability to make sure all of that data is securely separated from any other client that they're dealing with. So, you know, there's just no way they're not going to be good at doing this. I agree. I think that the key point that, uh, that Chris is making here is kind of where the lines of responsibility are, is, you know, if you're building it yourself and then you're responsible for securing it, you need to keep it up to date, you need to maintain it. And ultimately, it's your level of risk that you're kind of putting out there in terms of how well you do that. Um, when it's turned around, where it's the vendor providing this, you know, uh, there's a lot more, uh, guarantee behind it in terms of, you know, as a business, as the provider. You know, there are SLAs there, uh, you know, um. Certain guarantees and warranties that need to be provided for that service that that they are providing out to everybody else. And so as such, kind of the bar is set a little bit higher because, you know, as if you're consuming it from another vendor, you know, now they're responsible for all of this. And so if there's a problem, you know, you could seek some sort of compensation there. Whereas if you're doing it yourself, uh, you know, there's nobody to blame but yourself. Uh, and, uh, the consequences are different. So I think, you know, because of where the responsibility falls and the fact that there are various consequences that can stem from not achieving and delivering a proper and secure environment. Uh, you know, to to that point, I'd say that the cloud based vendor solutions are much more secure because they have to be.
