AWS European Sovereign Cloud provides cloud infrastructure intended to keep data physically and logically within the EU. The service became generally available to European customers in January and is positioned as a response to concerns about Europe’s reliance on US cloud platforms. AWS states that all components are located entirely within the EU and that the infrastructure is separate from other environments. The offering began with a single Region in Brandenburg, Germany, and plans to expand across the EU. Customers include University Hospital Essen for patient health data and AI development, Schufa for credit scoring using data for over 69 million consumers, and Diehl Metering for monitoring and billing services for public sector and critical infrastructure utilities.
"AWS claims the European Sovereign Cloud represents a physically and logically separate cloud infrastructure, with all components located entirely within the EU. It started with just a single Region, located in the state of Brandenburg, Germany, but plans to extend its footprint across the EU."
"Schufa has built a new credit scoring system that uses the AWS Cloud to hold the sensitive financial data of more than 69 million German consumers, while Diehl is operating services such as monitoring and billing for its public sector customers, helping critical infrastructure like waterworks and municipal utilities to manage water and energy data from a single centralized system."
"University Hospital Essen says it is using the platform for working with patient health data and also developing new AI technologies to improve patient care. "The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will support this mission by allowing us to work with health data at scale, while meeting German and European sovereignty expectations," said Prof Jens Kleesiek, the hospital's director of its Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, in a statement."
"There are, however, legitimate doubts about whether clouds operating under the aegis of any US company can really offer full sovereignty in Europe."
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