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How would the cloud act apply if none of the employees of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud are US citizens?


> Courts can require parent companies to provide data held by their subsidiaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act


But they would have no way to actually compel anyone who isn't a US citizen. The worst the US could do is fine Amazon until it complied.




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