Except that all of this subjects you and all of your workloads to warrantless US government surveillance due to running in the big public clouds.

I personally don’t want the federal government being able to peek into my files and data at any time, even though I’ve done nothing wrong. It’s the innocent people who have most to lose from government intrusion.

It seems insane to me to just throw up one’s hands and store private data in Google or Amazon clouds, especially when not doing so is so much cheaper.

I've never heard of this. Can you share a link of what you are referring to? I care about this.