AWS Launches AWS European Sovereign Cloud And Announces Expansion Across Europe

POTSDAM, Germany, Jan 15 (Bernama) -- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new, independent cloud for Europe entirely located within the EU, and physically and logically separate from other AWS Regions. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud’s unique approach provides the only fully featured, independently operated sovereign cloud backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections designed to meet the needs of European governments and enterprises for sensitive data. AWS also announced plans to extend the AWS European Sovereign Cloud footprint from Germany across the EU to support stringent isolation, in-country data residency, and low latency requirements. This will start with new sovereign AWS Local Zones located in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal.

From day one, AWS’s global cloud and AI infrastructure have been sovereign-by-design and provide customers with complete control over the location and movement of their data. This is supported by a range of technical measures and operational controls that provide transparency and assurance, and AWS’s global infrastructure that provides exceptionally high resilience, security and availability. AWS is built to meet the needs of the most security- and data privacy-conscious organisations in the world, and most customers are able to meet their requirements using one of the six existing AWS Regions in the EU, which are sovereign-by-design. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is designed to give customers additional choice to meet the EU’s stringent sovereignty requirements without compromising on the robust capabilities of AWS.