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“The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune
I see AWS touting “sovereign cloud”. Again. Microsoft and Google likewise always play this card.
Even if these cloud companies’ claim they couldn’t “access your keys” was true, they clearly want you to think only about confidentiality.
Why is that?
That’s because otherwise you’d realise your keys (or derivatives) are on their infrastructure. So they can delete them.
And when they delete your keys, all your confidential data turns into random, unrecoverable zeros and ones. Permanently lost. Gone. Kaput.
That’s why the cloud companies do not want you to think for even a millisecond about availability.
And really, how realistic is it that any cloud company would ever willingly destroy their customer’s data, right?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/imposing-sanctions-on-the-international-criminal-court/
Good night. Sleep tight.