[adamcharnock]

This may be blindingly obvious, but I’m going to say it anyway: If Amazon was willing to actually give up control of AWS EU, then this kind of announcement would be entirely surplus to requirements. But they will (obviously and rationally) not be giving up control of AWS EU because that would essentially have to be an act of charity, so they need to dress it up a bit.

(Before hitting ‘add comment’ I’m taking a moment to consider if I’m being overly cynical. But no, I really don’t think I am. But my company does compete with AWS, so that is a bias.)

[wkat4242]

Well it wouldn't have to be charity. They could just divest or sell it.

It would be a dumb move though because they need a worldwide CDN for customers from other countries outside the EU too.