Amazon Internet Providers launched a brand new impartial cloud service aiming to deal with European buyer considerations round digital sovereignty final week. However whereas analysts imagine it should assist European prospects meet regulatory compliance calls for, there are questions round how a lot sovereignty it supplies in observe.
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud information heart is situated in Brandenburg, Germany, with plans for extra services in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud supplies entry to 90 AWS companies however is “bodily and logically separate” from AWS’s present public cloud Areas, the corporate stated.
AWS established a brand new authorized entity to function the European Sovereign Cloud underneath a separate governance and operational mannequin. The brand new firm is included in Germany and run solely by EU residents, AWS stated. It operates underneath a governance construction led by EU residents which are obligated to adjust to European legal guidelines and, stated AWS, the service has “no essential dependencies” on non-EU infrastructure and is designed to “proceed operations indefinitely, even within the occasion of a communications disruption with the remainder of the world.”
