[sebazzz]

Are you sure? Isn't the point of Azure in Ireland that the US government won't be able to request data under the patriot act?

[yub]

Nope, the point of Azure in Ireland is to increase availability and decrease latency for EU clients. Microsoft challenged a warrant in 2013 to hand over emails stored in Ireland, but the SCOTUS vacated the rulings since it was moot by the CLOUD act of 2018, which allows the government to get data from US companies, no matter where the data physically is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_St...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

[def_true_false]

Huh. Azure used to have a special region in Germany (joint operation with Deutsche Telekom) but it seems they've killed it last year.