Amazon Web Services this week announced the general availability of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, positioning the infrastructure as an independent cloud system designed to meet stringent European data sovereignty requirements while maintaining the full capabilities of AWS’s global platform. The launch, revealed at an event in Potsdam, Germany, marks AWS’s response to mounting concerns about American technology companies’ ability to protect European data from foreign government access.
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud operates as a physically and logically separate infrastructure from other AWS Regions, according to the company’s announcement. Amazon plans to invest more than €7.8 billion in the German deployment by 2040, supporting an average of 2,800 full-time equivalent jobs annually while contributing approximately €17.2 billion to Germany’s GDP. The infrastructure launched its first AWS Region in Brandenburg, Germany, with expansion plans announced for…
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