[lazide]

Sure, then they replace them with someone with no such insight/scruples. They quit because the company wasn’t going to change ‘the orders’, yes?

Eventually they found someone who would do what they were told without quitting, that is how this works.

[skissane]

Right, and then if the US parent company orders EU managers to violate EU law, and when the managers refuse, replaces them with EU managers stupid enough to obey an illegal order - then what happens? The new EU managers get arrested and possibly end up in prison. Worse case scenario for the US parent, is the US parent company is (civilly or criminally) prosecuted under EU (or member state) law for giving the illegal order, convicted, and then as punishment, they are deprived of their local assets, including ownership of the subsidiary in question.

The parent company is ultimately at greater risk than the subsidiary-the parent can be deprived of ownership of its subsidiary, there is no equivalent consequence for the subsidiary.

[lazide]

Assuming it ever gets detected, which certainly isn’t going to be common eh?

I’m not really sure the point of your comment, actually. Are you asserting that no one would ever tell someone to do anything illegal because someone else might get in trouble for it?

Because if so, you might want to read the news?

[blibble]

> replaces them with EU managers

why would they do that? they'd put a US manager there temporarily

[skissane]

That would be illegal. They are offering this service to EU governments (and government contractors) under contractual terms which promise EU management. Replacing the EU management with a US manager would at a minimum be a breach of contract - and since some of these contracts are for sensitive / national security use cases, possibly much more serious legal consequences than just garden variety breach of contract

[blibble]

> Replacing the EU management with a US manager would at a minimum be a breach of contract - and since some of these contracts are for sensitive / national security use cases, possibly much more serious legal consequences than just garden variety breach of contract

and the EU has no leverage to do anything about it

if they did they wouldn't have selected AWS "Sovereign" cloud in the first place

[crazygringo]

The EU has no leverage?

This is located within the EU. They can walk in and arrest the US manager or deport them immediately, and throw any direct reports in jail if they obey the US manager.

The EU has all the leverage here. Sovereignty over a geographical area does actually mean something.

[blibble]

> They can walk in and arrest the US manager or deport them immediately,

how? they'd be in the US (hence "US manager")

> The EU has all the leverage here.

it has one threat: to shut it all down, at which point the EU re-enters the dark ages

threatening to blow off your own leg is not leverage

[skissane]

> and the EU has no leverage to do anything about it

Absolutely they do have leverage – maximum they could possibly do would be confiscate Amazon's EU assets (physical, financial, corporate and intellectual)

[blibble]

> maximum they could possibly do would be confiscate Amazon's EU assets

so they can turn off their own critical services?

threatening to shoot yourself in the foot with a tactical nuke is not leverage