2026-09-10 09:39 UTC
Swiss government decides not to use AWS for running its digital identity infrastructure.
AWS was preferred for its high availability, and because of poor progress of Switzerland's own "Government Cloud".
Reasons to dismiss AWS include need for digital sovereignty and interference from the US CLOUD Act. The danger of a kill switch and the complicated exit strategy lead to non-availability risks that eliminate any availability benefits provided by AWS itself.
https://www.republik.ch/2026/09/01/e-id-bundesrat-beat-jans-stoppt-auftrag-an-amazon
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@OvertonDoors@infosec.exchange 2026-09-17 18:16
@avandeursen@mastodon.acm.org @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange If AWS's corporate personhopd is registered in a foreign tax shelter is it even American? I understand the de-facto footprint kept by these homunculi is in the US, but it's not exclusively in the US, and the cloud is anywhere. So, serious question: why is this multinational loophole extorting parasite nominally "Murican"?