1. A system for interfacing a cloud-based simulation with a virtualized controller, comprising: a configuration retrieval component configured to discover and retrieve I/O module configuration data associated with a virtualized controller executing on a cloud platform, wherein the I/O module configuration data defines one or more clone I/O points of the virtualized controller; and an I/O normalization component configured to transform a communication protocol of the one or more clone I/O points to yield one or more encapsulated I/O points that conform to a standardized communication protocol; and a data exchange model configured to exchange simulation data between the one or more encapsulated I/O points and corresponding one or more simulation I/O points of the cloud-based simulation in accordance with the standardized communication protocol.