&gt; Prior to PRISM, pretty much any reasonable person would assume that the blobs you store in S3 aren&#x27;t going to be looked at anyone or, worst case, metadata will be seen by AWS employees for debugging stuff.<p>I beg to differ. Where you concentrate power, you have to expect abuse.<p>&gt; It is true that customer data is trusted with a lot of services-of-services nowadays, but do you want to go back to the stone age where the only people who can store anything must run their own hardware with their own databases and so on?<p>That&#x27;s a false dichotomy. Yes, I want to go back to people running their own hardware with their own databases. And to have that work as easily as your favourite cloud service. There isn&#x27;t anything inherent in running your own hardware that requires that to be a major burden.