What is AWS European Sovereign Cloud?

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a independent cloud for Europe, designed to help public sector organizations and customers in highly regulated industries meet their evolving sovereignty needs. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is separate and independent from other AWS Regions, with infrastructure located wholly within the European Union (EU). Customers and partners using the AWS European Sovereign Cloud 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. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud combines operational autonomy with expansive AWS services to meet the stringent sovereignty needs of European governments and enterprises.

Building on deep experience running AWS services for the most sensitive workloads around the world, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is designed with the unmatched operational resilience our customers expect from AWS. The design of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud enables it to continue operations indefinitely, even in the event of a connectivity interruption between the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and the rest of the world. European customers and governments benefit from the resilient AWS architecture that features multiple Availability Zones with independent power, networking, facilities, and security capabilities that make these critical operations possible. AWS is committed to independent and continuous operations; the AWS European Sovereign Cloud has no critical dependencies on non-EU infrastructure. Everything needed to operate the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is in the EU: the talent, the technology, the infrastructure, and the leadership. In addition to independent infrastructure, there will be zero operational control outside of EU borders; only AWS employees, residing in the EU, will control day-to-day operations, including access to data centers, technical support, and customer service for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. It also features enhanced controls allowing customers to keep all customer data and the metadata they create (such as the roles, permissions, resource labels, and configurations they use to run AWS) in the EU.