The Cloud of Amazon division, AWS, has announced the creation of a parent company and three subsidiaries in Germanyas part of its advance to launch a sovereign cloud in the European Union.
The Vice President of AWS Kathrin Renz will be the general director of the corporate matrix in Germany of the Cloud of Amazon division, although there will also be several «Government security and privacy officials based on the EU»That they will be in charge of your address. The German company will be in charge of the supervision of the sovereign cloud, which will receive the name of European Sovereign Cloud, and which has its launch planned by the end of 2025.
The company announced in May 2024 that it was going to invest 7,800 million euros until 2040 in the development of this sovereign cloud, of which its first region will be located in the state of Brandemburg. European Sovereign Cloud will have infrastructure within the EU, and will work independently of the existing cloud regions of the company.
The customers who use it can maintain both their data and their metadata, including the configurations they use to run AWS, in the EU. In this way they will comply with all applicable regulations and regulations in the region.
In addition to the creation of this company, the Amazon Cloud Division has also confirmed that an advisors are going to launch, composed of citizens of the European Union. It will also have a security operations center in Europe.
As reported by AWS, «Everything you need to operate AWS European Sovereign Cloud is in the EU. In addition to independent infrastructure, it will have zero operational control outside the borders of the European Union. Only AWS employees who reside in the EU will have control of the operations of their day to day, including access to data centers, technical support and AWS Customer Service of European Sovereign Cloud. We have designed AWS European Sovereign Cloud to address European sovereignty requirements while we maintain the service portfolio, security, reliability and performance that customers expect from AWS. Our investment in AWS European Sovereign Cloud reinforces our commitment to the digital future of Europe«.
