AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud
Customers want their data kept and processed strictly within the EU
AWS is pushing its European Sovereign Cloud, revealing someof the customers it has signed up to operate sensitive workloads on theplatform and the continent's over how much sovereign control over data the Amazon subsidiary reallyoffers.
The service became generallyavailable to European customers in January, amid growing alarm over the Trump administration’s open hostility to Europe and the continent's near-total dependence on US cloud platforms.
AWS claims the European Sovereign Cloud represents aphysically and logically separate cloud infrastructure, with all componentslocated entirely within the EU.
It started with just a single Region, located in the stateof Brandenburg, Germany, but plans to extend its footprint across the EU.
Organizations that have signed up for theservice include University Hospital Essen, Schufa, a German credit information bureau,and smart energy and water meter biz Diehl Metering.
Schufa has built a...
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