Frankfurt, Germany: Amazon's cloud computing division said Thursday that it would expand its "sovereign cloud" across the European Union, hoping to seek EU governments’ permission to safeguard their citizens' data.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) would expand its physical "footprint" into Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal, it said in a statement, adding to a site in eastern Germany.
The expansion would "provide organisations with further options to deploy workloads in the cloud with the highest level of sovereignty and operational independence", AWS said.
Spooked by a lack of European tech champions to compete with US giants, EU leaders have pushed "digital sovereignty" in recent years and called for reducing the continent's reliance on American technology.
