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AWS European Sovereign Cloud

AWS European Sovereign Cloud

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An independent cloud for Europe

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud for Europe entirely located within the European Union (EU), designed to help you meet your most stringent sovereignty requirements.

Built in Europe for Europe, it is the only fully featured, independently operated sovereign cloud backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances and legal protections.

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Benefits

See how the AWS European Sovereign Cloud can help you meet your digital sovereignty needs while taking advantage of the full innovative power of the AWS Cloud

Benefit from continuous AWS innovation, including the comprehensive service portfolio, security, availability, performance, familiar architecture, European partner solutions and APIs.

Deploy workloads with no critical dependencies on infrastructure outside of the EU, with enhanced data residency and operational resilience within the EU. Keep all your content and the metadata you create (such as the roles, permissions, resource labels and configurations you use to run AWS) in the EU.

Access technical support and customer service from within the EU. With zero operational control outside of EU borders, only AWS employees residing in the EU will control day-to-day operations, including access to data centres, technical support and customer service for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

Build, migrate and manage your applications and workloads on secure-by-design infrastructure backed by a dedicated Security Operations Centre with independent compliance validation and assurance. This includes key certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27,001:2013, SOC 1/2/3 reports and BSI C5 attestation, all validated regularly by independent auditors to ensure that our controls are designed appropriately and operate effectively to help you satisfy your compliance obligations.

Features

The AWS Nitro System provides a strong physical and logical security boundary to enforce access restrictions so that nobody, including AWS employees, can access customer workloads or data running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The security design of the Nitro System has been validated by the NCC Group, an independent cybersecurity firm.

Find out how the Nitro System achieved independent third-party validation

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud has the same industry-leading architecture built for security and availability as other AWS Regions. This includes multiple Availability Zones (AZs) with multiple layers of redundant power and networking to provide the highest level of resiliency.

AWS services from a range of categories including for:

Artificial intelligence – Amazon SageMaker
Compute – Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda
Containers – Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Database – Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS),
Networking – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Security – AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) and AWS Private Certificate Authority
Storage – Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

Find out more about the roadmap of services for AWS European Sovereign Cloud

With dedicated networking infrastructure and connectivity from European providers via AWS Direct Connect, you can autonomously connect to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.