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the fact that ministry of justice of any state, regardless of specific geopolitical problems going on at any given time, would just upload its data to any "cloud" no matter what state it is operated from, is mind blowing to me.
you would really expect some standards for such sensitive data.
Ditto. I would have expected most justice ministries to self-host or at least use domestic servers.
AWS and other US cloud hosts do have data centers in various “regions” (countries) around the world. Some countries have requirements that the servers are physically located there. And iirc, as I worked with some of this in the past, as an example some EU countries for their services required that only EU citizens had certain types of access to those systems. Ultimately they are still owned by US companies. But those companies try to accommodate their access requirements, in order to get their business. Not saying EU shouldn’t move away from US companies, but wanted to clarify some existing policies.
They're still getting Amazon to store data that is critical to the function of the nation.
Government documents shouldn't be on other people's computers.
Not disagreeing, but if Trump hadn't won a second term there really wouldn't be a dire reason to avoid the US. Sure they would be better of choosing a local or at least European provider, but most politicians (naively) didn't see the current hostility coming.
i don't think that's relevant. such sensitive data should be kept in-house and well guarded, not uploaded into public cloud.
Well yes, but it is relevant unless you believe policy makers will only work towards a world that is how it should be. That's why i started with mentioning i don't disagree with you. We surely can blame them for the results of their choices, but i don't think we can play the 'omg i'm totally surprised'-card is what i'm saying.