France and Germany are increasingly moving in different directions when it comes to digital sovereignty in the cloud sector. Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently declared the establishment of a ‘new, autonomous cloud for Europe,’ which is part of a broader pattern where major American cloud providers are addressing the concerns of EU nations about safeguarding their data within European boundaries.
The central issue revolves around whether these cloud services can genuinely be considered sovereign, particularly concerning data protection regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
