They can provide any data available to Amazon employees in the US. They can't provide what they do not have.

nextlevelwizard 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Silly to assume no data crosses the boundary also considering how US is acting like trusting any US company is pretty silly as well.

If that orange clown stays in power it won’t belong before we are at war and then you will lose access to everything overnight and all your data is theirs

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whatever1 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ultimately everyone reports to the CEO. They will just put enough Amazon CEOs to jail, until one grants access.

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SteveNuts 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

On the list of the things I doubt nowadays, an Amazon or Amazon subsidiary CEO going to jail is way up at the top.

They’ll get a national security letter for sure, but no one’s going to jail.

	▲	whatever1 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Likely the first one will immediately fold to avoid jail. But for context the head of the FED is currently investigated for criminal charges, governors, mayors, judges etc. Why is a CEO of a company so special? Within hours the board can appoint another one.
	▲	zwaps 17 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		You know that your president is about to put the head of the federal reserve in prison on trumped up charges? The US is not s country with rule of law anymore. It is a country that is rules by power.
	▲	Waterluvian an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The one thing I’ve learned without it taking a stupid long time is that there’s no more things that are too ridiculous to imagine happening. The American regime is an irrational actor. They’ll do whatever.
	▲	rapsey 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You don't get to be the size of amazon and not be completely cooperative with the three letter agencies. Thinking Amazon is going to be some sort of resistance is just incredibly naive. They are an extension of US power, not an independent entity.

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jeremyjh 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes let's talk about all the billionaire CEOs that get sent to prison.

Anyway, the entire structure and premise of this business is that they cannot do that. A court cannot put a CEO in jail just because partner businesses do not follow his orders. Do you think it is maybe remotely possible, that Amazons lawyers and architects understand this a little bit better than you do?

I'm thinking they checked it out, they checked it out a couple of times.

There are some details in this comment from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641592

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whatever1 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

MS lawyers could not do it (MS testified in France that they cannot). What make us believe that Amazon lawyers can?

	▲	spookie an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Adding source for this: Transcribed (not translated): https://www.senat.fr/compte-rendu-commissions/20250609/ce_co... Video: https://videos.senat.fr/video.5460497_6847c70b82594 Reports by third parties: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_c... https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/micro... Edit/note: The main point AWS makes is indeed by whom/where this offering is operated. But, Microsoft stated that even though they made an environment so that the data lives entirely within the EU they may be compelled to transmit the data back.

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mschuster91 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> A court cannot put a CEO in jail just because partner businesses do not follow his orders.

In the US, rule of law does not matter any more in practice. That is the problem. You can't even say it's "rule by mob" - at least the mob had an honor codex, the current administration doesn't give a single flying fuck about anything any more. Might makes right.

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nprateem 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Do you think it is maybe remotely possible, that Amazons lawyers and architects understand this a little bit better than you do?

Or they just want to make lots of money