It's good to have competition in the cloud space. Amazon
already has two government regions, I guess (1 US and 1 CN). Can someone confirm if these are already operational?
China's government makes companies store Chinese data in China and under different privacy and security laws than other nations. In particular, China makes companies enter into joint ventures with a Chinese company and comply with laws related to CCP oversight. (Not saying I agree, just stating the facts).
It's the same as Apple's iCloud for China being under the control of a joint venture company based in China.
AWS's "gov" cloud is a seperate set of regions in the US that are specifically for US government and contractor use and accounts in those regions are separated from the rest of AWS's infrastructure.
In addition to govcloud, they have 2 entire air gapped (network isolated which is why you cannot see them) regions for the US government, 1 for secret data and 1 for top secret data.
