How to support FreeBSD on your cloud

As most of my readers are aware, I ported FreeBSD to run on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and have been maintaining the platform ever since. Between this and my (far more recent) role as FreeBSD release engineering lead, I sometimes get a question from other cloud providers: "What's involved in supporting FreeBSD" &mdash; or sometimes, "How can we make FreeBSD on our cloud work as well as FreeBSD works on…