Amazon already publishes transparency reports indicating which country requested data[1]. It's not clear in the article what kinds of data requests are communicated by the alleged payments (subpoena, warrant, court order?), but the whole thing seems so unbelievable as to be.... made up
> €1.4 an hour for the CPU/GPU alone, plus a couple more Euro for hard disk usage and long-term storage (usage was pretty high during setup, which accounts at least for half the amount)
The Azure solution sounds much more expensive than the prices quoted in the article
Default bucket encryption would require you to misconfigure two controls instead of one. S3 only automatically decrypts if you are an authorized principal on the KMS key, having S3 permission is not enough.
The grid in Costa Rica is also highly unreliable and many communities will run off oil & gas generators for extended periods of time (in addition to the comments that a majority trucks, busses, cars still run off of non-renewable sources.
[1] https://d1.awsstatic.com/Security/pdfs/Amazon_AWS_Informatio...