An independent cloud for Europe
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud for Europe, designed to help customers meet their evolving sovereignty needs, including stringent data residency, operational autonomy, and resiliency requirements. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be the only fully-featured, independently operated sovereign cloud backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections designed to meet the needs of European governments and enterprises. Launching in 2025, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be entirely located within the European Union and operate as an independent cloud for Europe. Customers and partners using the AWS European Sovereign Cloud will benefit from the full power of AWS including the same service portfolio, security, availability, performance, familiar architecture, APIs and innovations such as the AWS Nitro System.
Investing in Europe
Deep commitment to Europe
Our roots in Europe run deep, and Amazon has contributed to economic growth and job creation here for more than 25 years. This includes investing more than €250 billion since 2010 and employing more than 225,000 people across the continent. For example, the teams at our research and development centres in Ireland and Germany help contribute to developing cutting-edge technology for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), including the AWS Nitro System that powers all our modern EC2 instances.
We’re building further infrastructure to help customers with more choice and the capability to meet Europe’s regulatory, data residency, and operational requirements.