AWS launches European Sovereign Cloud with German subsidiaries and EU-resident operations—but CLOUD Act jurisdiction, US ownership, and closed-source architecture mean genuine sovereignty remains elusive Amazon Web Services has launched its European Sovereign Cloud, promising operations "entirely located within the EU, and physically and logically separate from other AWS Regions." The service offers 90 AWS services from dedicated German infrastructure, managed by EU-resident

Microsoft, AWS, Google, and Salesforce executives admit under oath and in court what their marketing denied: they cannot protect European data from US government access. Here's what enterprises must know. Microsoft's French Senate testimony, June 2025:  Anton Carniaux, General Manager of Microsoft France, testified under oath that he "cannot guarantee that data belonging to French citizens, even when hosted by Microsoft under a government procurement agreement, wouldn't be ha