Cloud platforms are now underpinning key Saudi public services, financial services and industrial ecosystems. The very nature of the cloud's architecture can however amplify the risk of identity compromise, configuration errors and dependency failures. Much of the existing literature focuses on threat detection, compliance and disaster recovery in isolation with little guidance on how to integrate these into a coherent set of accountable operating decisions. This critical integrative review of the literature from 2020 to 2025 develops a Saudi-specific framework for integrating anticipatory intelligence, preventative controls, incident command and continuity assurance. It uses a structured thematic synthesis to examine the peer-reviewed literature on cloud attack surfaces, zero trust architectures, organisational capabilities, response learning and recovery governance, and this is augmented by an analysis of the specific Saudi cybersecurity requirements. The review concludes that resilience is not so much about the sheer number of controls that are in place, as it is about the demonstrable ownership of security decisions across the cloud provider, the tenant, the supplier and the various business functions. Its primary contribution is an integrated, testable governance framework in which the level of service criticality determines the priority of controls, the level of incident escalation and the requirement for independently demonstrated restoration capability. The recommended indicators are detection and containment latency, privileged access exposure, backup integrity, recovery point achievement and critical service restoration. The framework is a conceptual synthesis and not an empirically validated intervention. It would be necessary to test it in practice across the various Saudi sectors before any claims of effectiveness could be made.