Weak Impact
Reuters also interviewed Google and Microsoft employees and they told that their companies have seen no significant impact on their businesses. A spokesperson at Amazon said “global demand had never been greater”. Even though Amazon did not make the list in Snowden’s documents, it was still seen as a likely victim as it provided top cloud computing services.

The key reason for popularizing the prophecies of business doom is because both the U.S. industry and its overseas critics keep repeating the same thing that the customers will stop buying from U.S. Cloud companies.

Politicians in Europe and Brazil are using Snowden’s documents as proof to include and standardize new sets of privacy laws and are urging their local companies to steer clear of U.S. vendors. "If European cloud customers cannot trust the U.S. government, then maybe they won't trust U.S. cloud providers either," European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes told The Guardian. "If I am right, there are multibillion-euro consequences for American companies."

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