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by timrogers 319 days ago
Interestingly, the title refers to citizens but the body only refers to residents:

> the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is operated only by personnel who are European Union (EU) residents located in the EU, subject to EU law.
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anon191928 319 days ago
it also says this in article "we are adding EU citizenship to our hiring requirements "
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blitzar 319 days ago
> subject to EU law

Always was. Its telling that they think that they were not previously subject to EU laws when their EU subsidiary did business with someone located in the EU.

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mschuster91 319 days ago
> Its telling that they think that they were not previously subject to EU laws when their EU subsidiary did business with someone located in the EU.

The key thing is, at the moment US staff can do admin actions (e.g. SSH into physical hosts). Under this new framework, they can't.

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