I think this demonstrates a way in which all centralized power becomes, for good or for ill, partially absorbed into state power. A major country's government will always be able to exert lots of leverage against, e.g. tech companies, whether for legitimate or illegitimate reasons, it matters not which. They can always threaten regulatory or legislative actions which would be annoying or devastating to shareholders. Hence, behind-the-scenes conversations will always have an implicit fact of "please censor as we ask, provide data and backdoored access to which servers we ask, please don't take on the wrong political causes, elsewise there will be consequences."
Goodness knows that if the intelligence community or state law enforcement has ever wanted access to anything in AWS, now of all times would be when they have the easiest time asking for it! Anything to curry favor with someone who can speak a word of support to federal agencies and state officials.
I guess this makes me a little demoralized about the utility of "anti-big-tech government actions," because to the extent any of these actions succeed, it's probably just sending a clear message to enhance state influence/access of other tech companies. If I get excited (and I want to) because "Amazon might be broken up!!1!", maybe that just means Google finally got the message and decided to put backdoors into <insert platform here> on behalf of <insert agency>.
Goodness knows that if the intelligence community or state law enforcement has ever wanted access to anything in AWS, now of all times would be when they have the easiest time asking for it! Anything to curry favor with someone who can speak a word of support to federal agencies and state officials.