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wongarsutoday at 3:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Is there any evidence that the US executive branches and three letter agencies care about the physical location of the data center? Never mind the dependency on AWS, which is a US company

I doubt datacenter location matters for anything beyond latency


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storystarlingtoday at 3:53 PM

The US CLOUD Act explicitly asserts jurisdiction over data controlled by US companies regardless of the physical server location. So relying on AWS Frankfurt doesn't actually protect the data from US warrants if the provider is a US entity.