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I am extremely concerned about this move. We use AWS extremely heavily at our company, and as much as we love AWS, I'm concerned that their having a data center

I am extremely concerned about this move. We use AWS extremely heavily at our company, and as much as we love AWS, I'm concerned that their having a data center in China would subject the data and information flowing through their pipes to China's draconian data interception and censorship laws. I remember Microsoft wanting to open up Azure in China: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/4357-microsoft-azure-s-china-cloud-raises-troubling-questions/ http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/4357-microsoft-azure-s-china... but backtracked just two months later, likely for exactly those reasons: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/azure-goes-to-china/ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/azure-goes-to-c...

jauer 13y ago
Perhaps that's why it seems to be extra specially isolated (separate credentials, separate domain, separate API endpoints).
joshfraser 13y ago
They Chinese government won't have jurisdiction over anything unless the servers your company are using are physically located in China. As for the data flowing through the pipes, they can see that already (well as much as BGP routing allows) as can the NSA and countless other entities.