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. A growing number of tech giants and cloud providers, including Amazon rivals Microsoft and Google, offer European sovereign cloud, or data residency, programs. These help their customers comply with European local privacy and data protection laws like the GDPR and Germany’s Federal Data Protection Act.AWS announced in May 2024 that it would invest €7.8 billion (roughly $8.8 billion) to build the AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Germany through 2040, with the first cloud “region” to go live in the state of Brandenburg. Do you think that it is possible to protect humans against harm due to the huge amount data harvesting by tech companies ?
