AWS European Sovereign Cloud goes live in Brandenburg, run by EU residents under German law, physically and logically isolated from other Regions. The Sovereign Reference Framework establishes how it is governed.
$ tail -f /var/log/aws-security.logAWS launched the European Sovereign Cloud - a physically and logically separate cloud infrastructure located entirely within the EU, operated exclusively by EU residents, and governed by German law. This is the most significant AWS sovereignty announcement to date, enabling EU organizations with strict data residency requirements to use AWS.
AWS published the European Sovereign Cloud Sovereign Reference Framework (ESC-SRF), establishing sovereignty criteria across four pillars: governance independence, operational control, data residency, and technical isolation.
$ cat WEEKLY_SUMMARY.mdThe European Sovereign Cloud is a landmark for AWS - a fully separate cloud partition with EU-resident operations and German law governance. If you serve EU customers with strict data sovereignty requirements (GDPR, Schrems II, NIS2), evaluate whether ESC addresses your compliance gaps.
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