AWS European Sovereign Cloud
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#2EU does not seem happy about outsource tech platforms
https://cybernews.com/news/europe-internet-control-sovereign...
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#3How effective would this setup be if the parent company in the US is ordered to order the EU subsidiary to do something not in the interests of the EU?
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#4How effective would this setup be if the parent company in the US is ordered to order the EU subsidiary to do something not in the interests of the EU?
If it breaks the law in the EU, then the European employees staffing the data center refuse, because they don't want to go to jail or pay fines.
That's the entire point of setting it up like this.
Think of it like fast-food franchises. They have to sell the same food and use the same branding and charge the same prices. But if McDonald's tells you to start selling cocaine on the side, you tell them nope, that's not in the contract and I don't feel like going to prison.
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#5It's better than nothing but I'd say it's naive to believe this will hold if US gov genuinely leans on AWS US HQ.
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#6> The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is the only fully-featured, independently operated sovereign cloud, backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances and legal protections.
independently OPERATED, not independently owned
therefore: still under the jurisdiction of the US regime
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#7Sovereign-by-design but still runs a software stack that is largely written and maintained by a US staff...
All of these isolation sovereignty iniatives are window dressing to the bigger problem that the EU and other countries are massively dependent on proprietaey US-centric software stacks.
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#8Why is this valuable?
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#9How effective would this setup be if the parent company in the US is ordered to order the EU subsidiary to do something not in the interests of the EU?
If it breaks the law in the EU, then the European employees staffing the data center refuse, because they don't want to go to jail or pay fines. That's the entire point of setting it up like this. Think of it like fast-food franchises. They have to sell the same food and use the same branding and charge the same prices. But if McDonald's tells you to start selling cocaine on the side, you tell them nope, that's not i…
What if the software is developed and potentially backdoored in the US and deployed by the EU team in the sovereign region? Or did they rewrite the entire AWS stack?
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#10How effective would this setup be if the parent company in the US is ordered to order the EU subsidiary to do something not in the interests of the EU?
There was a Microsoft email server legal case for Ireland that didn't go well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat...