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If you believe that cloud providers just copy your data willy-nilly from place to place, you've obviously never dealt with the cloud before. They go to great pains to earn trust by making sure that your data only lives where you put it. You haven't read any of their documentation, you haven't looked into the independent, third-party audits that verify that their documentation is true. You know what region you put your data in, and the cloud provider doesn't surrepititiously copy places without your knowledge. If your approach to risk management is that cloud providers will do the opposite of what they write in documentation and that the third party auditors are lying or not actually seeing what really happens, you'll never be able to use any equipment that you don't personally manage. You'd never be able to use a managed data centre or a so-called "private cloud" either, because all these providers could just tell you one thing and do another.

Then there's the simple fact that it doesn't scale to copy everybody's data to the US. When you're as big as one of these major cloud providers, that's just simply not possible.