> Replacing the EU management with a US manager would at a minimum be a breach of contract - and since some of these contracts are for sensitive / national security use cases, possibly much more serious legal consequences than just garden variety breach of contract
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
The EU has no leverage?
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.
> They can walk in and arrest the US manager or deport them immediately,
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
> and the EU has no leverage to do anything about it
Absolutely they do have leverage – maximum they could possibly do would be confiscate Amazon's EU assets (physical, financial, corporate and intellectual)
> maximum they could possibly do would be confiscate Amazon's EU assets
so they can turn off their own critical services?
threatening to shoot yourself in the foot with a tactical nuke is not leverage