AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Built, operated, controlled, and secured in Europe

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud for Europe entirely located within the European Union (EU), designed to help customers meet their evolving sovereignty requirements.

Built in Europe for Europe, it is the only fully-featured, independently operated sovereign cloud backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections.

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will operate with an independent governance structure, dedicated Security Operations Centre, and under a newly established parent company that will be locally controlled in the EU, led by EU citizens and subject to local laws.

The management team of the parent company includes Stéphane Israël and Stefan Hoechbauer, both EU citizens residing in the EU and experienced business leaders, strengthening the operational autonomy of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud delivers complete European control through local leadership, independent governance, and EU-based operations.

Our approach from the beginning has been to make AWS sovereign-by-design. We built data protection features and controls in the AWS Cloud with input from financial services, healthcare, and government customers—who are among the most security- and data privacy-conscious organisations in the world.

Our AWS Regions are powered by the AWS Nitro System which provides a strong physical and logical security boundary to enforce access restrictions so that nobody, including AWS employees, can access customer workloads or data running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The security design of the Nitro System has been validated by the NCC Group, an independent cybersecurity firm.

We offer features and controls to encrypt data, whether in transit, at rest, or in memory. All AWS services support encryption, and most services also support encryption with customer managed keys that AWS can’t access.

Security is found

Source: HackerNews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46640462)