Empowering Europe’s Digital Future
Navigating the Sovereign Cloud with AWS and Deloitte
The rapid evolution of cloud computing has transformed the way organizations manage, store, and process data. As the digital landscape becomes increasingly complex and interconnected, the concept of cloud sovereignty has emerged as a critical issue.
The Growing Need for Cloud Sovereignty in a Complex Digital Landscape
As the digital landscape becomes increasingly complex and interconnected, the concept of cloud sovereignty has emerged as a critical issue. Some of the main challenges the public sector has faced when adopting cloud have been data security, privacy and compliance concerns.
Deloitte’s Four-Layer Framework for Cloud Sovereignty
Deloitte has developed a cloud sovereignty framework that seeks to offer a systemic view to ensure end-to-end compliance, data protection, and operational resilience across the full stack.
Cloud sovereignty can be analyzed through Deloitte´s framework which consists of four layers: Operations, Data, Software and Infrastructure, and an additional cross Security layer.
A major investment for European Digital Sovereignty
The latest step in AWS's continuum of sovereignty solutions is the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Launching by the end of 2025, AWS announced plans to invest €7.8 billion in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Germany until 2040. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will provide a fully independent cloud infrastructure designed specifically to help public sector organizations and customers in highly regulated industries meet their evolving sovereignty needs.
Operational autonomy
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will operate as a physically and logically separate region from AWS's other commercially available regions. It will be operated independently from existing regions and all operational support, including customer service and technical support, will be provided by EU residents, located within the EU.
Service consistency
Another of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud key strengths will be its consistent experience with other AWS regions. Customers will be able to use the same services, architecture, APIs, and tools across the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and existing AWS regions. From its launch, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud will offer a comprehensive suite of services in categories such as artificial intelligence, compute, containers, database, networking, security, and storage. Together, Deloitte and AWS enable clients to unlock the value of Cloud Sovereignty.
As organizations across Europe navigate the complex landscape of digital sovereignty, the partnership between Deloitte's expertise in cloud migration and sovereignty combined with AWS's advanced technological sovereignty solutions, offers a compelling path forward. By leveraging AWS robust suite of sovereign solutions, organizations can confidently migrate their critical workloads to the cloud while maintaining compliance with stringent European regulations.
