> That way Amazon can honestly say it has no operational control to violate EU law because there's no American employee they can command.

> Amazon is intentionally setting it up in a way that it won't be able to do anything about that.

They can say whatever they want but when the NSA knocks on the door, they'll covertly implant a backdoor anywhere they ask and ship the update to the "sovereign" EU cloud. This is nothing but a ruse.