Thank you Steven, Good to get some ideas on where and when to use or not cloud services. James Foster asked:

Do Amazon's data centers outside the US qualify for EU usage?

According to the discussions (I'm not a lawyer), the FISA Amendments Acts and the Patriot Act conflict with EU legislation for all US owned companies. The suggestion is that only putting encrypted data on a US owned cloud can be secure enough (not processing any unencrypted data). Stephan