Cloud remains very expensive for stable user loads, because there remains no means to compare compute capacity between offers. Amazon suffers no price competition. The price of Amazon's original small instance remains unchanged after four years. 30 providers might use 23 different compute metrics. See http://cloudpricecalculator.com/ as a first pass ranking of providers by mapping all providers to ECU's

Except, Barack did use the old Bushism *Fear* pitch "The safety of the American people is more important that holding the telephone companies accountable..." to justify his support for the FISA bill with telecom immunity.

Dan