From financial services to healthcare to the public sector, a growing number of European organisations are selecting the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to run their sensitive workloads, without compromising on innovation. Backed by a €7.8 billion investment, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud helps public sector organisations and customers in highly regulated industries meet their evolving sovereignty needs.
“Customers told us they needed a sovereign cloud that didn’t force them to compromise on capability. That’s exactly what we’ve built,” said Stéphane Israël, managing director of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and digital sovereignty. “The speed of adoption, from financial services to healthcare to the public sector, tells us we’re meeting a real need.”
Here’s a closer look at what’s driving adoption — and what comes next.
Which organisations are choosing the AWS European Sovereign Cloud?
New customers have chosen the AWS European Sovereign Cloud for a variety of use cases. Whether migrating sensitive data from on-premises environments or serving their own highly-regulated customers, organisations benefit from data residency and operational autonomy within the EU, with the security, performance and breadth of services they expect from AWS.
SCHUFA: Protecting the financial data of 69 million consumers
SCHUFA, one of Germany’s leading providers of credit information, will migrate workloads from its on-premises data centers, as well as other cloud workloads, to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. As part of its digital transformation, SCHUFA has built a new credit scoring system that shows consumers exactly how their creditworthiness is assessed, including the criteria used and how they’re weighted. They selected the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to ensure that the sensitive financial data of more than 69 million German consumers remains protected under strict European sovereignty standards.
“The AWS European Sovereign Cloud gives us what we need: a fully isolated infrastructure within the EU, operated exclusively by EU-resident staff, with no access from outside Europe. And the best part — we don’t have to sacrifice innovation for sovereignty, we get both,” said Dr. Klaus Kolitz, CTO and member of the board, SCHUFA Holding AG.
University Hospital Essen: Exploring sovereign AI for healthcare
European organisations are also choosing the AWS European Sovereign Cloud as the foundation for developing new AI capabilities. The University Hospital Essen is a leading
healthcare centre in the Ruhr region famous for its clinical research and development of new technologies and treatment methods. They see the AWS European Sovereign Cloud as a compelling foundation for working with health data at scale while meeting German and European sovereignty expectations.
“The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is an important contribution towards enabling secure, sovereign cloud capabilities for next-generation healthcare solutions. At the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, we bring together researchers to develop new AI methods and technologies that improve patient care,” said Prof. Jens Kleesiek, Director, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (IKIM), University Hospital Essen (AöR). “The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will support this mission by allowing us to work with health data at scale, while meeting German and European sovereignty expectations. For translating medical research into clinical practice, this creates a compelling foundation to accelerate innovation.”
Diehl Metering: Serving public sector customers with sovereign infrastructure
Other organisations have selected the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to serve regulated customers of their own. Diehl Metering, a leading provider of smart water and energy metering solutions and part of the Diehl Group, is using the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to build a secure data platform for its public sector customers that provides modular services such as monitoring and billing, enabling critical infrastructure operators like waterworks and municipal utilities to manage water and energy data from a single centralised system. Diehl Metering selected the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to meet the stringent sovereignty and security requirements of its public sector customers.
“The AWS European Sovereign Cloud enables us to offer our smart metering data platform with full assurance that data stays in the EU, operated by EU-based personnel, with the controls our public sector customers require,” said Peter Yves Ruland, Senior Head of Data Management, Diehl Metering. “We gain the scalability to expand our modular services efficiently, something that was previously only possible at significant additional cost.”
How is the AWS European Sovereign Cloud partner network growing?
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud partner network continues to grow. Since launch, new partners including Colt Technology Services, euNetworks, OpenText, SumoLogic, Vodafone, and Widdix are now providing their solutions to customers on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Today customers can also select and deploy more than 165 solutions in the AWS Marketplace optimised for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud across categories such as Infrastructure Software, DevOps, Cloud Operations or AI Agents and Tools. This is giving customers the technology they already know and use but with the technical controls and sovereign assurances of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
SAP Cloud ERP Private is now generally available to customers on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. This is an SAP Sovereign Cloud capability, which are security-hardened cloud solutions from SAP, aligned with industry standards for regulated industries and governments. These solutions provide customers with a secure foundation for managing critical business processes and sensitive data, while supporting compliance with relevant regulations.
Other independent software vendors are also choosing the AWS European Sovereign Cloud for their own workloads and bringing their products to customers. Widdix is a Germany-based software vendor specialising in cloud security. Its solution bucketAV brings proven antivirus and malware protection for Amazon S3 to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling organisations to detect and neutralise threats in real time, entirely within the EU.
“As a German software vendor and a customer ourselves, we use the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to operate our own workloads with full confidence in data residency and operational autonomy within the EU,” said Andreas Wittig, Co-Founder, Widdix. “We gain the best of both worlds—reinforced digital sovereignty without giving up the innovation and scale we rely on from AWS. This is a strong opportunity to help customers in healthcare, public administration, and other regulated sectors strengthen their security posture.”
What new AI capabilities are coming to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud?
AWS has continued to expand the services and features available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, including AWS Network Firewall, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, and AWS IAM Identity Center. Amazon EC2 G6 accelerated computing instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available for a wide range of video, AI, and graphics use cases, in addition to compute optimized instances.
In the coming months, customers will also gain access to new AI capabilities including Nova 2 Lite and open weight models on Amazon Bedrock and Mantle, Amazon Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine. Mantle provides zero operator access, meaning customer prompts and responses are never visible to AWS operators, keeping sensitive data private. It also dynamically allocates capacity to requests, improving availability particularly for steady-state workloads while allowing customers to rapidly scale as demand grows. This gives organizations in highly regulated industries the confidence to run their most sensitive AI workloads knowing their data remains inaccessible by design.
Customers will also gain access to Nova 2 Lite and open weight models from Mistral AI and OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock, giving them greater choice to build generative AI applications that meet their sovereignty, performance, and cost requirements. Together, these additions reinforce AWS’s commitment to making the AWS European Sovereign Cloud the best place for European organisations to innovate with AI, without compromise.
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