[Terretta]

AWS’s regionality and stronger region separation boundaries are a huge selling point for regulated (data regulation) industries and enterprises.

A bank, for instance, may be required to prove it cannot replicate customer data across regions, and that no third party provider will replicate its data using their own BCM or DR systems.

Regardless of CSP, startups should think about rules on movement of data among data jurisdictions (such as GDPR) and architect accordingly.