Yes, and you also got every single other country in the world to take notice and to wonder what would happen if the same happened to them... leading to ad hoc legislation, actively looking for alternative providers, and a surge of new, sometimes govt-backed competitors (you know, in the name of national independence). Not to mention that all your existing competitors will start yelling “we would NEVER do that” at the top of their lungs.
The FANG may be as powerful as big nations, but event the biggest country needs a very good reason to declare war —and defending privacy isn’t it.
Not sure if this is worse or better than FAANG. I can see the appeal though.
So were they to coordinate - just as some big providers did around SOPA/PIPA, then they would have some impact. Otherwise of course no one will risk such a move.
Apple, though not a CSP is pretty much interested in keeping their privacy game going. (Which might not mean much outside the US for customers.)
Eh, if you build it, they won't necessarily come (e.g. google+).
Countries don’t have the power to dethrone FAANG.
There are other search engines (maybe not as powerful as Google, but if you don’t have a choice...). There are other e-commerce platforms, and there are a shitload of cloud providers. There are other high-end phone and laptop manufacturers. There may not be a credible FB alternative (but I’m not shedding any tears over that). The only real crazy-hard-to-replace infrastructure IMO is the App Store duopoly.
As another poster pointed out, there are countries (Russia, China) where credible alternative providers evolved because FAANG were not allowed to enter the market. In time, the same would happen if they were to leave a market.
Tell that to the countries that already block them.
AWS has a data center region in Sydney, AUS
AWS is is big, but there are a number of much bigger players.
If AWS outsources physical security to the DC operator, and doesn't enforce other kinds of operational isolation, then it's of course doesn't matter what else AWS does there.