Unlocking Europe’s Competitiveness with Sovereign Cloud

Europe stands at a crossroads in its digital transformation journey. Public cloud has matured from a technical enabler into a strategic business enabler for innovation, offering the scalability, resilience, agility, and AI-driven capabilities required to compete in an increasingly digital global economy. Yet, this opportunity comes with heightened expectations: European enterprises must balance rapid adoption with seamless control to meet regulatory compliance, data protection, and the emerging imperatives of European autonomy.

For Europe, the pressure is particularly acute. Rising demand for AI and cloud-native services exposes gaps in infrastructure, skills, and capacity, while ambitious EU regulations are redefining how data must be managed, governed, and shared. European organisations must therefore address an important dilemma:

This paper, in collaboration with AWS, explores how the convergence of these forces, shapes Europe’s public cloud landscape, highlighting the critical role of cloud and AI as catalysts for economic growth, digital modernisation, and the pursuit of strategic digital sovereignty.

How to accelerate productivity gains and innovation through Cloud and AI, while safeguarding European autonomy, regulatory compliance, and operational control?