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So, the U.S. government would be OK with another country requesting data on the U.S. Gov't AWS cloud that Amazon has setup?



No no no, that wouldn't be allowed at all. You see, we're the good guys; that makes it OK.


That's not really an analogous situation. The analogous situation would be another country asking a company located and incorporated in that other country for a copy of an electronic document that is under the control of that company, which they have stored on a server in the US. That company has remote access to the server and can copy/move the document without needing the cooperation or even awareness of anyone in the US.

I doubt that the US would object to the other country's government requiring the company to make a copy of the document and giving it to that government.


And such a company would be Amazon, and such an example would be Amazon's services for the government.




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