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.
Edit: what on earth is with the downvotes? I'm just explaining how it works. I'm not even expressing an opinion or anything.
I imagine that if a back door were ever discovered, AWS's reputation would tank so hard that a lot of companies would probably never do business with it again.
probably 100%?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat...
independently OPERATED, not independently owned
therefore: still under the jurisdiction of the US regime
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.
Not as much as you might think. The most important component -- Nitro -- basically runs out of Germany.
Id argue that very few software components are written (let alone maintained) by US staff. This is basically another major player (there are other sovereign clouds) reading the writing on the wall and doing what is necessary to avoid losing business or being irradiated from the market.
CloudFlare CEO, take notice. Look how the big boys do business and maybe learn a thing or two.
Last week, after receiving a fine in Italy, the Cloudflare CEO demonstrated that US tech leadership are extremely emotionally volatile and can lash out in all directions, threatening unrelated parties with shutdown of service. This is in line with Peter "anti christ" Thiel and Elon "nazi salute" Musk going off the rails. Maybe it is a drug-induced psychosis from their annual gathering in the desert where US tech workers consume illegal substances, I don't know.
What if someone scratches Bezos' yacht by accident and then he threatens to shut down the DC? Or he might get upset about a CO2 surcharge when refueling his private jet? Can we really take these risks?
AWS should be ditched altogether and something Europe based chosen even if it requires investment.
It'd be great if they could clarify in their FAQ [1] if and how the CLOUD Act affects them.
[0] https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_c...
ironbound•1h ago
https://cybernews.com/news/europe-internet-control-sovereign...