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Amazon Web Services to launch European sovereign cloud

Published 10/25/2023, 01:07 AM
Updated 10/25/2023, 01:10 AM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: 3D printed clouds and figurines are seen in front of the AWS (Amazon Web Service) cloud service logo in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File photo
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services (AWS) said on Wednesday it will launch a sovereign cloud in Europe for government and customers in highly regulated industries.

The sovereign cloud will store data on servers located in the European Union, and only EU-resident AWS employees will have control of the operations and provide support, the cloud-computing division of Amazon said in a statement.

The European Union has been at the forefront of privacy and security legislation and its privacy watchdog launched a probe last year into the public sector's use of cloud-based services to check if they comply with its privacy safeguards.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: 3D printed clouds and figurines are seen in front of the AWS (Amazon Web Service) cloud service logo in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File photo

Both business and government customers increasingly use the data centres of big tech companies in the form of public clouds rather than building their own infrastructure. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) have also launched their cloud versions for European government customers.

AWS will launch first in Germany and make its service available to all European customers.

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