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AWS Digital Sovereignty

More choice for your data

Benefit from the most advanced set of sovereignty controls, security features, and infrastructure options to meet your unique digital sovereignty needs
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More control, more choice

At AWS, we believe it is essential that our customers have control over their data and choices for how they secure and manage their data in the cloud. We give you the flexibility to choose how and where you want to run your workloads.

Read the AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge

Infrastructure choice

AWS European Sovereign Cloud

 

We’ve announced plans to launch the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new, 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 will provide customers the capability to meet stringent operational autonomy and data residency requirements.

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AWS Infrastructure

AWS offers the most secure, extensive, and reliable Global cloud infrastructure. We provide a broad range of infrastructure options to help you meet your requirements, wherever you need it.

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AWS Infrastructure

Strongest sovereignty controls

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.

Learn how the Nitro System achieved independent third-party validation

Customers have full control of their data on AWS and determine where their data is stored, how it’s stored, and who has access to it. We provide tools to help you automate and monitor your storage location, including over 245 controls under the digital sovereignty category  in AWS Control Tower.

Learn about the digital sovereignty category in Control Tower

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.

Read about how AWS can help with encryption

Dive deeper into resources on topics like portability, interoperability, transparency, assurances, data protection, and resilience.


Visit our European digital sovereignty frequently asked questions (FAQs)
 

Compliance with European regulations

We help you meet European laws and standards and achieve the highest levels of security, privacy, and resilience. With AWS, you can improve your ability to meet core security and European data privacy compliance requirements. We provide guidance to assist you in maintaining compliance, plus we offer a large network of partners who can help manage your compliance for you. We support industry initiatives such as GAIA-X to define standards for the next generation of data infrastructure.

We support the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) Code of Conduct. Over 100 AWS services are certified as compliant with the CISPE Code of Conduct.

Compliance with European regulations