Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ:AMZN) has announced the general availability of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a standalone cloud platform built exclusively to meet Europe’s data sovereignty and regulatory requirements.
The new cloud environment is hosted entirely within the European Union and operates as a physically and logically independent infrastructure, separate from other AWS Regions worldwide.
Amazon said it intends to invest more than €7.8 billion in developing the AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Germany, an initiative expected to support an average of around 2,800 full-time equivalent jobs each year.
In addition to the German deployment, the company plans to broaden the sovereign cloud footprint across the EU. This expansion will begin with the launch of new AWS Local Zones in Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal.
The European Sovereign Cloud is designed to give customers access to a dedicated cloud infrastructure that complies with regional data governance and sovereignty rules, while remaining operationally distinct from AWS’s global cloud network.