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AWS establishes new German corporate presence to advance European sovereign cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing division, is forming a new parent company and three subsidiaries in Germany as part of a sovereign cloud the company is launching in the European Union.
Customers using it will be able to keep their data and metadata — including the configurations they use to run AWS — in the EU to comply with applicable laws and regulations, Amazon says. In addition to the new corporate presence in Germany, AWS says that it’s establishing an advisory board made up of EU citizens and a dedicated European security operations center. And in 2022, AWS settled an EU antitrust probe into how it allegedly abused rivals’ sales data to unfairly favor its own products.
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