Data may be stored across the clouds of multiple cloud computing providers to improve data security. Software infrastructure components of an original cloud computing provider storing data via a first virtual machine (VM) may be identified. Software infrastructure components of an alternative cloud computing provider that is to store the data via a second VM may also be identified. A comparison is performed to determine components missing from the alternative cloud computing provider. Accordingly, configuration data may be created to cause a VM configuration utility to provision the second virtual machine with the missing components at a runtime of the second virtual machine. The configuration data and a command to activate creation of the second virtual machine on a cloud of the alternative cloud computing provider is sent to the VM configuration utility. Subsequently, a backup or a transfer of the data from the first virtual machine to the second virtual machine may be initiated.