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I don't think the location of the company matters. As far as the EU is concerned if you are serving an audience in the EU you have to comply even if you are hosting on AWS or any other hosting provider regardless of where you are in the world.

IANAL, but I don't think this law is a relevant factor when picking your hosting provider.

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Does the law specifically carve out exceptions for hosting companies? If there isn’t an explicit exception, then the cloud hosting company could also be subjected to the same requirements to remove censored content from their platform within 1 hour of receiving the notice.

A hosting platform hosting user-provided code and content isn’t that much different than a forum platform hosting user-provided comments in the eyes of the law.

And the cloud hosting platform would have to react within one hour (at least usually). An autoreply saying "no" isn't a reaction, but a human answering is a reaction.

> Does the law specifically carve out exceptions for hosting companies?

Does this law even apply to hosting companies? The description mentions people running websites, which in this case refers to customers of hosting companies such as AWS, Hetzner, and others. Expecting hosting companies such as Hetzner to be responsible or liable for content that a client posts on a service running on one of their vCPU would make as much sense as going after AWS just because a conspiracy nut posted a tweet.

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