Comment by jiggawatts
1 year ago
> It grants the Secretary of Commerce extra-judicial power to force any IaaS to stop doing business with any foreign customer
This can backfire, as foreign customers of public clouds may switch to local providers, which erodes the US near-monopoly on cloud services. Ironically this can reduce the visibility and control the US government has over foreign nation states.
E.g.: most of the Australian government is hosted in either Azure or AWS. That kind of thing might stop if extrajudicial power is granted to pull the plug on any customer on any time.
If they’re inspecting what people are running on GPU instances to report that information back to the US government it’s going to give a lot of people pause for thought. It’s basically violating guarantees that many businesses have with cloud providers.