I'm not sure I understand how an American company would be able to provide any service that could be "sovereign European".

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vander_elst 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How I can imagine it works: Amazon only provides the packaged software, the infra and the ops are officially driven by a 100% European company. AWS probably provides support, but they don't have the encryption keys not any access to the installation.

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Vespasian 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In theory Amazon could license the stack to a European Operator while having no operative access themselves.

I think this is already done in some cases altough the political reliability has not yet been tested.

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WJW 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I guess the question then becomes: what happens if some future US government pressures Amazon to revoke the license. Unless and until there's a good answer to that, it'd still be better to develop something locally.

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Muromec 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If I run your software, you can have no operational control, but you can sneak a root kit or some kind of stuff I dont want to have there

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nemomarx 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They must have something like this for China, right?

	▲	cmckn 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sort of. AWS operates the China regions more or less like any other region, with oversight by the Chinese holding companies. The EUSC will be more restricted, similar to GovCloud. Only EU citizens can access/operate it. Specific example: an alarm fires for your service. If it’s in China, anyone on the team can go look at the logs. If it’s in GovCloud, only teammates who are American can look at the logs. In the EUSC, only Europeans can.

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Balinares 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

By providing the software to be installed in clusters owned and operated by European companies.

The sovereign cloud spec designed by the folks at France's ANSSI agency is tight.