Amazon’s new European Sovereign Cloud.

A Strategic Response to US Law and EU Data Privacy

Organisations outside the US considering the use of Cloud services have been faced with a hard choice. All the major providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google, are based in the US and fall under US legal jurisdiction.

Organisations in the EU or EU-adjacent locations (especially the UK) must consider GDPR and other data regulations. Typically, these regulations state that an organisation in one of these locations should limit the use of outside third parties unless those parties can guarantee parity with EU requirements. For simplicity, I’ll refer to EU organisations for the rest of this article.