How Will AWS and SAP Reshape European Cloud Sovereignty?
Amazon Web Services and SAP have announced plans to integrate SAP Sovereign Cloud capabilities with the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, combining SAP’s enterprise application expertise with AWS cloud infrastructure to serve customers in highly regulated industries seeking AI innovation opportunities.
Building on the companies’ existing relationship spanning more than 16 years, SAP Sovereign Cloud capabilities represent security-hardened cloud solutions from SAP, designed to align with industry standards for regulated industries and government organisations.
AWS European Sovereign Cloud launches in Brandenburg
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will launch its first region in Brandenburg, Germany by the end of 2025, with Amazon planning to invest €7.8bn (US$9.2bn) in this infrastructure. The offering targets public sector organisations and customers in highly regulated industries, providing options to meet digital sovereignty requirements including data residency, operational autonomy and resiliency demands.
“We’re delighted that SAP Sovereign Cloud capabilities will be available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. This will give organisations more choice in how they meet their sovereignty requirements while leveraging cloud technologies,” says David Brown, Vice President of Compute and Machine Learning at AWS.
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud operates separately and independently from AWS’s existing regions. The infrastructure maintains no dependencies on non-EU systems, backed by technical controls, sovereign assurances and legal protections. Customers can access the full capacity of AWS with the same security, resilience and service portfolio available in existing regions.
David continues: “SAP and AWS share a mutual vision: we want to ensure that our customers have access to sovereignty solutions, so organisations can focus on innovation and driving outcomes. We’re looking forward to our ongoing collaboration with SAP and seeing the ways that organisations across Europe will innovate with the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.”
SAP Sovereign Cloud capabilities expand globally
SAP Sovereign Cloud capabilities have already operated on AWS in Australia and New Zealand since 2023, the UK since 2024 and Canada and India since 2025. SAP Sovereign Cloud empowers organisations to innovate securely, comply with local laws, and scale according to their requirements. The solutions on AWS European Sovereign Cloud will initially include SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Cloud ERP. These provide customers with a foundation for managing business processes and sensitive data whilst supporting compliance with regulations.
The collaboration focuses on uniting SAP’s capabilities and enterprise expertise with AWS infrastructure and operational expertise. This combination addresses customers’ evolving digital sovereignty needs across Europe, particularly for organisations in sectors subject to strict regulatory oversight.
Thomas Saueressig, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Customer Services and Delivery, explains: “With our expanded SAP Sovereign Cloud offerings, we’re enabling customers across all industries to harness the power of cloud innovation and AI.”
AWS and SAP partnership spans 16 years
AWS launched in 2006 and now operates more than 240 services across compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning, AI, Internet of Things, mobile, security, hybrid, media and application development. The company runs 120 Availability Zones within 38 geographic regions, with plans for 10 more Availability Zones and three more AWS regions in Chile, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
The partnership between AWS and SAP spans cloud innovation over 16 years. This new collaboration builds on that foundation to support customers’ digital sovereignty requirements and accelerate digital transformation across Europe.
Thomas adds: “By deploying the SAP Sovereign Cloud portfolio on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, customers gain access to our comprehensive suite of sovereign cloud solutions, further strengthened by our trusted partnership with Amazon Web Services.”
