The career to guarantee digital sovereignty in Europe is accelerated. The growing concern for data control, regulatory compliance and the technological dependence of non -European actors has led to cloud giants to take a step further.
In this context, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SAP have announced a strategic extension of their collaboration to make available to European clients the capacities of SAP Savereign Cloud within the newly created AWS European Savereign Cloudin which Amazon plans to invest 7.8 billion euros.
The agreement comes at a time when community regulation, promoted by frameworks such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the future EU Data Law, forces governments and companies to guarantee greater control over where they are stored and how their data is processed. At the same time, artificial intelligence has become the central lever of innovation, which makes digital security and autonomy essential conditions to continue advancing.
Voices from industry
The announcement is part of a long trajectory of cooperation between both companies, but this time with a special emphasis on the most regulated sectors: public administrations, health, finance and energy.
“We are delighted that the capabilities of SAP Savereign Cloud are available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud. This will offer organizations more options when meeting their sovereignty requirements, while taking advantage of the best cloud technologies,” explains David Brown, Vice President of Computer and Machine Learning of AWS. He added, the vision shared with SAP is “to ensure that our clients have access to the most advanced market sovereignty solutions, so that organizations can focus on innovation and the generation of tangible results.”
For its part, Thomas Sauessig, member of the SAP Executive Council for customer and delivery services, highlights that the priority is to enable safe innovation in a context of growing normative pressure: “With our expanded offer of SAP Sovereign Cloud, we allow customers of all sectors to make the most of the potential of cloud innovation and artificial intelligence”.
A key step for the sovereign cloud in Europe
The AWS European Savereign Cloud It will be independent of the existing regions of Amazon, which implies that it will not depend on infrastructure external to the European Union. This point is critical for public bodies and companies that seek technical and legal guarantees that their data are managed entirely under European jurisdiction.
The first region of this sovereign cloud will be launched in Brandeburg (Germany) at the end of 2025. From there, AWS will offer services with the same levels of resilience, scalability and technological catalog as in the rest of its global regions, but with reinforced control in the field of data residence, operational autonomy and resilience.
In parallel, SAP will make two of its key solutions available to this infrastructure: SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Cloud Erpwhich will allow customers to manage critical processes and sensitive data with full normative alignment.
Digital sovereignty as a competitiveness engine
Beyond regulatory compliance, the joint commitment of AWS and SAP responds to a strategic issue: guarantee that Europe can compete on equal terms in the new economy of artificial intelligence. In a market dominated by global suppliers, having a cloud designed from Europe for Europe reinforces the technological autonomy of the continent and offers a more reliable framework for the deployment of AI applications.
The movement also responds to an international trend. The capacities of SAP Savereign Cloud They already work on AWS in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada and India. Now, the arrival in Europe represents a qualitative leap through the dimension of the market and the weight of community regulation in data protection and cybersecurity.
An alliance with 16 years of history
AWS and SAP are not strange to collaborate. For more than a decade and a half, both companies have developed joint solutions to accelerate the digital transformation of their customers. This new stage, focused on digital sovereignty and artificial intelligence, reinforces a relationship that combines SAP experience in business applications with AWS global infrastructure.
The promise for the next few years is clear: an environment where European clients can innovate without compromising security, resilience or sovereignty of their data. With the announcement of Brandeburg as the first region and with the strong planned investment, the message that is sent from Waldorf and Seattle is that the future of the European cloud will be written under parameters of trust and sustainable innovation.
