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"US-based companies Google and Amazon comply with US laws regarding search warrants"

They have no option indeed, but it's interesting to see how easy this made it to connect the dots.

If one register gmail address from Russia traffic is routed to Ireland DC most likely (sometimes Belgium). Aren't Google operate outside USA as a separate business? Would Google Ireland transfer data on USA citizens to Ireland if warrant from the local police.

In 2013, Microsoft have actually asked US SDNY (and by extension the federal government) whether there is a legal basis for a warrant issued since that the data is in Ireland (and was never brought to the US), and Microsoft thinks that since the subsidiary controls the data instead of themselves US SDNY (and FBI) would need to activate Irish MLAT services. It actually went to the Supreme Court (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/584/17-2/), and the result? Well, the Congress have passed the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ141/pdf/PLAW...) that basically states that the US has extraterritorial jurisdiction on all data held by US companies, making the case moot.

And EU countries are happy with that? Does at mean that major clouds should not be recommenced in EU? I think most of the people in EU never heard about decision above.

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