Amazon commits $1 billion to communities near data centers, AWS CEO says it no longer uses NDAs with government agencies
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A $1B community fund around data centers and dropping NDAs with agencies is AWS treating local trust and transparency as core infra, not PR. If you depend on hyperscale, factor community relations and regulatory optics into your siting and compliance assumptions — the politics around your workloads are now part of the architecture.
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