That is a rather laughable actual protection isn’t it? People do stuff because their bosses tell them too.
Eventually they found someone who would do what they were told without quitting, that is how this works.
The parent company is ultimately at greater risk than the subsidiary-the parent can be deprived of ownership of its subsidiary, there is no equivalent consequence for the subsidiary.
I’m not really sure the point of your comment, actually. Are you asserting that no one would ever tell someone to do anything illegal because someone else might get in trouble for it?
Because if so, you might want to read the news?
why would they do that? they'd put a US manager there temporarily
and the EU has no leverage to do anything about it
if they did they wouldn't have selected AWS "Sovereign" cloud in the first place
Absolutely they do have leverage – maximum they could possibly do would be confiscate Amazon's EU assets (physical, financial, corporate and intellectual)
so they can turn off their own critical services?
threatening to shoot yourself in the foot with a tactical nuke is not leverage
That would require humans to do additional – and very likely criminal – acts of retaliation.
And no one will care about whatever claims of ‘criminal retaliation’ there are, because it’s already crossed that line eh?
It’s not like the domestic employees will be doing it anyway - or would need to be involved.
This is located within the EU. They can walk in and arrest the US manager or deport them immediately, and throw any direct reports in jail if they obey the US manager.
The EU has all the leverage here. Sovereignty over a geographical area does actually mean something.
how? they'd be in the US (hence "US manager")
> The EU has all the leverage here.
it has one threat: to shut it all down, at which point the EU re-enters the dark ages
threatening to blow off your own leg is not leverage
For those with nothing they particularly care about, it will be enough. For those with something to lose - currently small, but increasing, see the 80’s and the French Industrial espionage scandal - they’ll move back to on-prem if they haven’t already.