While it is true cash offers in the strict sense mean real cash, it may also mean no-contingency offers. You can go through mortgage underwriting first and commit to pay the gap between appraised value and deal value, and can make a no-contingency offer with minimum risk. Or, if you are willing to lose your deposit (usually 3-5%) you can also make a no-contingency offer to be more attractive.
I've had luck showing that the cloud provider fulfills the 'local backup' requirement as part of their compliance (provided they do meet the same framework that you're trying to meet), and us inheriting the control from the cloud provider.
clquery, a SQL interface to cloud resources. Using SQL and tables to interact with AWS (and eventually others) makes it easier to quickly query and join across various resources and services without needing to remember how to make and parse the underlying API.