1. A method comprises: receiving a data storage request and at least one of a cloud storage access reliability indication and a cloud storage data reliability indication; interpreting the at least one of cloud storage access reliability indication and the cloud storage data reliability indication to determine at least one of a storage access level and a storage reliability level; determining dispersed storage error encoding parameters based on the at least one of the storage access level and the storage reliability level; and encoding data of the data storage request based on the dispersed storage error encoding parameters to produce one or more sets of encoded data slices.