The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is an independent cloud for Europe, designed to help public sector organisations and customers in highly regulated industries meet their evolving sovereignty needs. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is the only fully-featured, independently operated sovereign cloud, backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances and legal protections. We’ve designed the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be separate and independent from our existing AWS Regions, with infrastructure located wholly within the European Union (EU), with the same security, availability and performance that our customers get from existing AWS Regions today. As with all current Regions, customers using the AWS European Sovereign Cloud will benefit from the full power of AWS with the same familiar architecture, expansive service portfolio and APIs that millions of customers use today.

To deliver enhanced operational autonomy and resilience within the EU, only personnel who are EU residents, located in the EU, have control of day-to-day operations, including access to the data centres, technical support and customer service of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. We are gradually transitioning the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated exclusively by EU citizens located in the EU. During this transition period we will continue to work with a blended team of EU residents and EU citizens located in the EU.