AWS and SAP to offer sovereign cloud solutions across Europe

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SAP SE announced plans to bring SAP Sovereign Cloud capabilities to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. The move combines SAP’s enterprise software expertise with AWS’s cloud infrastructure, targeting customers in regulated industries and the public sector.

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is backed by a planned EURO 7.8 billion investment and will operate independently from AWS’s existing global regions. The first region is expected to launch in Brandenburg, Germany, by the end of 2025. The design aims to meet requirements for data residency, operational autonomy, and resilience.

SAP Sovereign Cloud provides hardened cloud solutions designed to meet industry and government standards. By extending these services onto AWS’s new European platform, customers will have options to comply with local regulations while managing critical workloads. The initial offerings will include SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Cloud ERP.

David Brown, vice president of Compute and Machine Learning at AWS, said the collaboration will allow organizations to meet sovereignty needs while continuing to use cloud technologies. Thomas Saueressig, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Customer Services and Delivery, said that extending SAP Sovereign Cloud to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud strengthens customer access to secure enterprise applications.

SAP Sovereign Cloud is already running on AWS in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada, and India. Expanding to Europe marks a significant milestone in the partnership between the two companies, which has spanned more than 16 years.

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will operate without critical dependencies on non-EU infrastructure and promises technical controls, legal safeguards, and service capacity consistent with AWS’s existing offerings.