An automation handoff changes who may act, which instructions are current, and what evidence a future recovery can trust. Renaming the operator in one document does not complete that transfer. Old schedules can still run, stale playbooks can still grant authority, and an aggressive branch cleanup …

A cloud environment can be turned off quickly, but “the server is gone” is not the same as “the service is safely hibernated.” Compute may stop while block storage, public addresses, or snapshots continue to incur charges. A backup may exist while nobody has proved that it can restore a working …