I think the viewpoint that the article expresses is a bit extreme. The cost to companies of changing cloud providers from Amazon EC2 to anything else alone wou

I think the viewpoint that the article expresses is a bit extreme. The cost to companies of changing cloud providers from Amazon EC2 to anything else alone would be substantial enough to make most businessmen hesitate. And if the NSA was ready to go to these lengths, and were indeed collaborating with other governments, I think it would be naive to believe that just because a Cloud provider wasn't based in the USA, they wouldn't have opened their data vaults to the intelligence agency of their respective country. Prism definitely hurts the USA and its image, no doubt, but I don't think it will kill the US Cloud business.