[sph]

How would you feel if the US government ran on servers from a European company, which also works very hard to avoid paying taxes in US soil?

All those reasons to go AWS hold for a private company, not for a government service of a first world country and G7 member. AWS has a lot of compliant services, but it's not like they're doing rocket science one of the top 5 richest countries in the world cannot afford to develop or contract within its borders.

The simple reason is that the UK has been on a long trend of selling out to the highest bidder, whether they are US tax avoiding companies, chinese or managed by Russian oligarchs. We have chosen AWS for the same reason Post Office chose Fujitsu.

[freedomben]

I would be surprised if they aren't deploying to the London data center, so I would think it is within the UK

[dijit]

There's no govcloud in the UK; unless there are specific terms then the terms-of-service state that you are licensing either the irish entity or the american entity to have access and dominion of your data.

I had to spend a lot of time writing my privacy policy (perks of being CTO... yay), and part of that privacy policy was an admission that we transfer ownership of data to a US company (by using public cloud) despite using european datacenters.

This is because our agreement is with a US entity.

[esskay]

eu-west-2 is a bit misleading, most of its nowhere near London, they've got DC's right up into the midlands. One of their newer ones for example is out in Didcot Oxfordshire, they've also got a few up towards Peterborough. All classed as 'London' despite being a fair distance away from it.

[arpinum]

The blogpost shows a connection string to eu-west-1 in Ireland