> Customers who wish to use the new Beijing Region are required to sign up for a separate set of account credentials unique to the China (Beijing) Region. Customers with existing AWS credentials will not be able to access resources in the new Region, and vice versa.
I'm guessing this is related to China's foreign ownership laws?
Also, I imagine the various regulation ISPs and hosting providers are obligated to inside the country - if customers can siphon off data that local officials disapprove of to another region easily, it puts Amazon in a difficult position.
Also it's bad for other sites. If China pulls of their google antics on Amazon and blocks sites hosted by them its a large proportion of what we all use blocked inside China as casualties.
I'm guessing this is related to China's foreign ownership laws?