Being on Amazon in Canada may not help you depending on the outcome of this: http://europe.newsweek.com/does-us-warrant-apply-data-stored-foreign-server-332236

Being on Amazon in Canada may not help you depending on the outcome of this: http://europe.newsweek.com/does-us-warrant-apply-data-stored-foreign-server-332236 http://europe.newsweek.com/does-us-warrant-apply-data-stored... (as mentioned by @axelfontaine below) And the requirements pertaining to Canadian data actually staying in Canada are largely overblown: http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2011/04/cloud-computing-and-privacy-faq.html http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2011/04/cloud-computing-and-pri...