[throwaway63467]

Yeah but it’s like using a EU vendor that hosts on AWS, if the US government wants the data they’ll just subpoena AWS instead of the EU provider. I get that it’s better but anything hosted on US soil is under jurisdiction of the US government regardless of whether it’s ultimately owned by a EU vendor.

[youngtaff]

An EU vendor with their own hardware or using an EU provider underneath then it’s very different to an EU provider using AWS underneath

[TheNewsIsHere]

A lot of people don’t see that.

I used to consult for a Canadian firm. Their sales folks complained that prospective accounts from outside the US would often include in their negotiations something to the effect of “you need to service our account through a non-US entity.” This firm had no non-Canadian entity.

But it was a very well known tech firm, so the assumption was that it was American.

Turned out the objections from prospects got a lot more strenuous (read: deals from non-US prospects not closing) when the firm’s cloud services were only available through AWS in the US.