So far, I have been a advocate of the cloud in general and EC2 is particular, to all my tech friends. Many of them look up to me. for tech advise/views. But in this Wikileaks incident, all indications show them to be 'spine less' to say the least. I will definitely stop being their free advocate. And will consider moving out of EC2, if possible. Unless, I get to see some convincing, response on this matter from Amazon. Or a publicly announced regret etc.