Comment by fnordpiglet

The issue is without profit incentive of course it isn’t X (backed up, redundant, highly available, whatever other aspect is optimized away by accountants).

Having worked a great deal inside of aws on these things aws provides literally every conceivable level of customer managed security down to customer owned and keyed datacenters operated by aws, with master key HSMs owned, purchased by the customer, with customer managed key hierarchies at all levels and detailed audit logs of everything done by everything including aws itself. The security assurance of aws is far and away beyond what even the most sophisticated state actor infrastructure does and is more modern to boot - because it’s profit incentive drives that.

Most likely this was not about national security than about nationalism. They’re easily confused but that’s fallacious. And they earned the dividends of fallacious thinking.