Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ:AMZN) has launched the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, making the new platform generally available as a cloud environment designed exclusively to meet Europe’s data sovereignty and regulatory standards.
The sovereign cloud operates entirely within the European Union and is architected to be both physically and logically isolated from AWS’s other global regions.
Amazon said it plans to invest more than €7.8 billion in the German deployment of the European Sovereign Cloud, an investment expected to support roughly 2,800 full-time equivalent jobs on average each year.
The company also outlined plans to extend the sovereign cloud footprint across the EU, with the first phase of expansion set to include new AWS Local Zones in Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal.
By offering a dedicated European cloud environment, AWS aims to provide customers with infrastructure that complies with regional data governance and sovereignty requirements, while remaining operationally independent from its global cloud network.
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