Grab data residency laws, open window, toss....
Isn't it interesting how we have all these laws about data residency and which soil the data center resides on. And when faced with actual physical warfare, suddenly moving that data outside the country's boundary becomes acceptable & invited.
I've always thought these data residency laws were nonsense anyway. Just a way to get AWS / GCP / Oracle / etc to build a data center within the country, paying taxes, hiring workers, etc.
The big fear is always that whatever country could go and snoop the data because the datacenter was within their borders. Yeah, I suppose. However, if the data is properly encrypted and the keys are held elsewhere, then it is really a moot point. "But the law says the data can't leave...", blah, blah, blah.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
