AWS European Sovereign Cloud is generally available and the cloud provider is planning to expand from Germany to Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal.
The launch of AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a milestone for Amazon and its plans to invest more than €7.8 billion in the effort.
AWS is focusing on sovereign cloud as various countries adopt data residency regulations. AWS European Sovereign Cloud is physically and logically separate from other AWS regions yet offers all the services as other clouds.
According to AWS, EU customers will have complete control over the location and movement of data. These customers will also have low latency via a local cloud.
The plan going forward is to connect AWS European Sovereign Cloud to AWS Local Zones to give customers options to deploy workloads with sovereignty and operational independence with all of AWS services. AWS Local Zones enable enterprise to store data in a geographic location for data residency requirements.
AWS noted that AWS European Sovereign Cloud has a dedicated governance structure and is run by EU citizens. Launch partners include Accenture, adesso, Adobe, Arvato Systems, Atos, Capgemini, Dedalus, Deloitte, Genesys, Kyndryl, Mistral AI, msg group, Nvidia, SAP, SoftwareOne and others.
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Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller caught with Mustafa Isik, Chief Technologist Sovereignty at AWS. Here's a look at the takeaways on AWS' sovereign cloud plans in Europe and beyond.
AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Isik said AWS has been in Europe for years, but the focus is now on taking infrastructure that has solved problems for customers for years and rebuilding it in the EU. AWS European Sovereign Cloud is based in Brandenberg and the location is the equivalent of the North Virginia location in North America. Isik said AWS will expand its sovereign cloud footprint across Europe in Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal. "With AWS European Sovereign Cloud, you get a full blown AWS region," said Isik.
A sovereign data and cloud and local talent. Isik noted that AWS has built AWS European Sovereign Cloud with local talent. "We have hired many new colleagues and enabled them. These are system engineers, administrators, software developers, and across the board in terms of IT jobs," said Isik. "These colleagues that we have hired within the EU, are EU residents, and can only assume their operational role while they're physically present in a member state of the EU. These people are the only ones who will be operating the infrastructure and the services of the European Sovereign Cloud.
AI in Europe. AWS European Sovereign Cloud will have all of the AI and machine learning services found in any AWS cloud including Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock and the full suite of infrastructure offerings. "It comes with AI services from day one and that's a powerful proposition that customers from highly regulated industries and public sector have been waiting for," said Isik. He added that AWS European Sovereign Cloud has its own legal structures for handling data and customers can opt out of data used for inference, tuning and other use cases.
