Amazon's removal of WikiLeaks from its servers threatens the future of cloud computing and jeopardizes the huge potential growthof its adoption, according to a leading industry figure.

Dr. Joseph Reger, Chief Technology Officer for Fujitsu Technology Solutions, said that Amazon's reaction shows the need for an industry-wide approach to service level agreements and codes of practice:

Industry-level standards needed

It is all a matter of trust, said Dr. Reger. Clients have been worried about the security of their data by attacks on their provider. Now they have to worry about their data by attacks by their provider.

Dr. Reger said the whole episode highlighted the need for the nascent cloud industry to work together and produce industry-wide codes of practice. He cautioned people considering moving to the cloud to look very closely at the Service Level Agreement (SLA) they were signing.