By: Max Peterson, Vice President of AWS Sovereign Cloud

Navigating digital sovereignty can be complex, but customers don’t have to do it alone. AWS and our partners are committed to providing the services, knowledge, and support that our customers need to take full advantage of the cloud. We continue to invent and innovate with a focus on providing more control and choice to help customers meet their unique digital sovereignty requirements without compromising on the full power of the cloud.

AWS announced plans to launch the AWS European Sovereign Cloud by the end of 2025 after hearing from many customers in Europe that they want to adopt the cloud but are facing increasing regulatory scrutiny for provable assurance of their control over data location, operational autonomy, and resilience. As a fully featured AWS Cloud, customers and partners will have access to a broad set of services including compute, storage, database, analytics, networking, machine learning and artificial intelligence, among others.

Customers will also be able to choose from a wide range of Software as a Service (SaaS) and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) offerings on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, allowing them to take full advantage of the breadth and depth of AWS. Today, we’re thrilled to highlight several innovative solutions set to launch on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to help customers drive advancements while meeting necessary requirements.

Helping customers innovate on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Here’s a snapshot of how partners can help customers innovate on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is a comprehensive suite of solutions including AEM Sites, AEM Assets, and AEM Forms. It’s designed to empower marketers and developers to create high-performance experiences across a myriad of digital properties while adhering to the highest security and compliance standards. Over the last twelve years, the AWS Cloud has been one of the AEM Managed Services deployment options given its quality, security, privacy, regulatory compliance, and governance tools that give customers access to high-performing solutions for securely managing their digital marketing needs. AEM Managed Services on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be available as another option to provide heightened assurance for European Union (EU) customers who are focused on meeting specific data residency and European operational autonomy and resiliency requirements, such as those in the public sector and highly regulated industries. Leveraging AWS’s sovereign-by-design infrastructure can help customers verify compliance with EU privacy and security frameworks, while benefiting from the flexibility and scalability of Adobe’s digital experience solutions.

Cisco is a worldwide technology leader that securely connects everything to make anything possible. Together, Cisco and AWS are leading efforts that make it easier for customers to accelerate their cloud journeys. Cisco solutions help simplify networks across on-premises and cloud and allow organizations to build a solid foundation for the network of the future. Cisco looks forward to bringing the power of its portfolio to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, which will help customers embark on their unique digital transformation journey with confidence, knowing their security and sovereignty requirements are met.

Dedalus Group is a leading Europe healthcare and diagnostic software provider, serving over 13,200 healthcare organizations worldwide with solutions that support the entire continuum of care and reaching more than 540 million people globally. With AWS as their preferred cloud provider, Dedalus is enabling their flagship products – ORBIS (a comprehensive Electronic Health Record system), Dedalus Care and Connect (an integrated clinical and administrative platform), and Hydmedia (an enterprise content management system) – to run on AWS Cloud, including the announced AWS European Sovereign Cloud. By providing its solutions on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, European organizations will have additional options to move to the cloud while meeting their unique digital sovereignty requirements. This will allow healthcare professionals to access patient information securely from anywhere, facilitate real-time collaboration among care teams, and support faster clinical decision-making through integrated data analytics. The cloud-based solutions also offer improved operational efficiency through automated workflows, reduced IT infrastructure costs, better resource allocation, and seamless system integrations, while helping ensure business continuity through AWS’s reliable infrastructure.

Esri is a global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping with a focus on helping customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Since 2008, Esri and AWS have had a strong, strategic collaboration and deep technical integrations to support customer success. Esri was one of the first ISVs to deploy their ArcGIS technology on AWS, which is a comprehensive geospatial platform, and has continued to innovate with AWS to meet customer needs for growth, scale, security, and sovereignty. Built by Esri, ArcGIS integrates and connects data through the context of geography with world-leading capabilities for creating, managing, analyzing, mapping, and sharing all types of information. ArcGIS will be available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud as another option for European customers to choose from. This provides a distinct advantage and decision-making edge to customers across industries, while helping them meet their unique security and sovereignty requirements.

Genesys helps organizations use artificial intelligence (AI) to create personalized, end-to-end experiences that drive long-term loyalty from customers and employees. The availability of the Genesys Cloud platform on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud will allow organizations to leverage sophisticated experience orchestration capabilities to improve customer service and engage employees, in addition to other AI-powered services that will be available, including Amazon Q and Amazon Bedrock. Customers will be able to tap into a range of generative AI capabilities from Genesys, such as Agent Copilot, to help enhance service experiences between employees and customers, all within a secure and localized data environment that meets strict in-country data residency requirements. Together, Genesys and AWS are helping organizations in Europe use the latest technology to address their most pressing business challenges, including digital sovereignty, data privacy, and cybersecurity.

GitLab is a comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. Together, GitLab and AWS offer customers a seamless AI-powered developer experience that combines DevSecOps workflows and AWS environments to help organizations ship secure software faster. With the launch of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, GitLab will provide an offering to help meet the unique needs of public sector and highly regulated European organizations. This offering will ensure all code, project files, and related data are stored exclusively within EU borders. Organizations with stringent sovereignty requirements will be able to leverage GitLab’s powerful DevSecOps platform to develop software more quickly and with greater confidence, knowing their data is private and compliant within the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

Mendix, is a leading low-code platform provider and part of Siemens Digital Industries Software (DI SW) that empowers organizations to rapidly build and deploy sophisticated enterprise-grade applications. In 2021, Mendix, Siemens DI SW and AWS entered into a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with a focus on accelerating digital transformation and legacy modernization for organizations across industries globally. Mendix has run natively on AWS since 2016 and will be expanding their offerings with the availability of Mendix Cloud on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. This will help public and private sector organisations across Europe meet stringent digital sovereignty requirements, while getting the full benefits of Mendix Cloud’s built-in security, governance, monitoring, backups, and single-click deployment capabilities. The availability of Mendix Cloud on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud marks a significant milestone in giving customers more choice to help address the evolving digital sovereignty landscape in Europe, allowing organizations to keep innovating with confidence.

Pega provides a powerful platform that empowers global clients to use AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation solutions to solve their most pressing business challenges – from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Pega’s strategic work with AWS has allowed Pega to transform its as-a-Service business to become a highly scalable, reliable, and agile way for customers to experience Pega’s platform across the globe. Pega will offer its Pega EU Service Boundary on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, which will help customers meet digital sovereignty requirements. By combining Pega Cloud’s already stringent approach to data isolation, access controls, and process with the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, Pega will provide further digital sovereignty assurances at all layers of the service, from Pega’s platform and supporting technologies, all the way to the supporting infrastructure.

Trend Micro is a global leader in cybersecurity and a trusted security provider for many AWS customers and developers, with a track record of helping organizations navigate changing global compliance requirements. Trend Vision One will be available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, providing customers with advanced threat detection and data protection specifically tailored to meet European data sovereignty and compliance requirements. By deploying Trend Vision One on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, customers will get targeted protection and have the ability to innovate confidently while meeting data sovereignty and compliance standards, enabling secure cloud expansion.

Wiz is a cloud security solution that helps more than 45% of Fortune 100 companies secure everything they build and run on AWS. Wiz holds five AWS Competencies and integrates with more than 50 AWS services to help some of the largest cloud consumers in the world stay safe and secure. Deploying Wiz on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud marks a key step in ongoing efforts to enable cloud adoption for European organizations by providing them with further choice, helping customers meet their unique digital sovereignty requirements. Leveraging AWS infrastructure helps to strengthen security, while ensuring operational autonomy and independence within European borders, reinforcing Wiz’s commitment to customers in the region. Customers will be able to leverage the full power of the Wiz cloud security platform, including Wiz Cloud, on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, which will help European customers meet their unique digital sovereignty and cloud security needs.

More control and choice without compromise

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be sovereign-by-design, just as the AWS Cloud has been since day one. It will provide the same security, availability and performance that customers get from existing AWS Regions today, with enhanced data residency and operational resilience within the EU to help meet the evolving needs of EU organizations. With a wide range of partner solutions available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, customers will be able to choose the offerings that best meet their needs and innovate immediately while meeting necessary requirements.

AWS remains committed to offering all customers the most advanced set of sovereignty controls and features available in the cloud, and our partners play a critical role in helping customers navigate the complexities around digital sovereignty. We look forward to sharing more updates on the breadth and depth of partner solutions that customers will be able to leverage on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, and can’t wait to see the types of advancements organizations drive.