AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud

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PaaS + IaaS AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud Customers want their data kept and processed strictly within the EU AWS is pushing its European Sovereign Cloud, revealing some of the customers it has signed up to operate sensitive workloads on the platform and the continent's over how much sovereign control over data the Amazon subsidiary really offers.The service became generally available to European customers in January, amid growing alarm over the Trump administration’s open hostility to Europe and the continent's near-total dependence on US cloud platforms. AWS claims the European Sovereign Cloud represents a physically and logically separate cloud infrastructure, with all components located entirely within the EU. It started with just a single Region, located in the state of Brandenburg, Germany, but plans to extend its footprint across the EU. Organizations that have signed up for the service include University Hospital Essen, Schufa, a German credit information bureau, and smart energy and water meter biz Diehl Metering.Schufa has built a new credit scoring system that uses the AWS Cloud to hold the sensitive financial data of more than 69 million German consumers, while Diehl is operating services such as monitoring and billing for its public sector customers, helping critical infrastructure like waterworks and municipal utilities to manage water and energy data from a single centralized system.University Hospital Essen says it is using the platform for working with patient health data and also developing new AI technologies to improve patient care.“The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will support this mission by allowing us to work with health data at scale, while meeting German and European sovereignty expectations,” said Prof Jens Kleesiek, the hospital’s director of its Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, in a statement.There are, however, legitimate doubts about whether clouds operating under the aegis of any US...