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Re:German state of Hesse bans cloud services from schools du... by groovybits on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:33PM (#20444950)
As an outsider looking in (from the US), what is the difference between the current Azure Germany vs the new locations they're standing up in Berlin and Frankfurt?

Frankly, I don't understand the point of the last 3 paragraphs of this announcment.

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Re:German state of Hesse bans cloud services from schools du... by gmueckl on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:42PM (#20445036)
The difference is that the discontinued data center was run independently by a German company (T-Systems IIRC). MS engineered the contracts in such a way that they had no ability to access anything in this data center. That made it exclusive subject to German law. As I see it, the new data centers are run by MS directly and thus an entity that is subject to US laws and their far reaching clauses.
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