[kriro]

I'm not sure I understand the announcement, my head is spinning a bit from the bureaucrat-speak but...does it in essence read

1) Amazon is compliant because they have a special (political!) deal in place

"""AWS has already obtained approval from EU data protection authorities (known as the Article 29 Working Party)"""

2) Amazon (or AWS customers) can still transfer EU data to the US

""" [...] can continue to use AWS to transfer their customer content from the EEA to the US, without altering workloads, and in compliance with EU law.?"""

+

"""[...] to enable transfer of personal data outside Europe, including to the US with our EU-approved Data Processing Addendum and Model Clauses."""

If so I'm worried.

[pfortuny]

I bet (EU citizen here) that agreement is some oind of official "certification" which a storage firm can acquire via a (probably long and winding) bureucratic process.

Lots of those here.

Kind of "civil blessing".