After Google and Microsoft, Amazon changes ‘track’ in Europe as worry of this ‘American law’ spreads; but why analysts think that ‘America fear’ may not go – The Times of India

America’s Cloud Act is spooking European Union leaders. The Cloud Act is a law that gives the US government authority to obtain digital data held by US-based tech corporations irrespective of whether that data is stored on servers at home or on foreign soil. Spooked by a lack of European technology champions to compete with the US giants, EU leaders have pushed “digital sovereignty” in recent years and called for reducing the continent’s reliance on American technology. This has made America companies offering Cloud solutions to change track and offer ‘sovereign Cloud’ in Europe. Amazon’s American rivals including Google and Microsoft also offer customers the option of storing data in Europe.Amazon’s cloud computing division recently said that it would expand its “sovereign cloud” across the European Union, hoping to cash in as EU governments seek to safeguard their citizens’ data. In a statement, the company announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) would expand its physical…