AWS European Sovereign Cloud – PROTOS ist Launch Partner

With the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC), a sovereign-by-design cloud infrastructure that is fully operated, controlled, controlled and secured is created. It is physically and organizationally separated from other AWS regions and is aimed at companies as well as public institutions that have the highest demands on data protection, compliance and digital sovereignty.

Core principles of the ESC are:

• Data sovereignty: All data and metadata remain in the EU.
• Governance: Leadership, operation and security operations exclusively by EU citizens.
• Resilience: Fully independent infrastructure that works regardless of systems outside of Europe.

For many companies, this is more than a technical requirement: they are faced with the challenge of complying with regulatory requirements such as GDPR, NIS2 or industry -specific security guidelines and at the same time expanding their digital innovative ability. The ESC offers the crucial lever here: it makes European sovereignty standard, reduces compliance risks and will quickly open access to the full AWS ecosystem-from the latest automation services to AI-based applications.

AWS is investing much faster and more comprehensive in the ESC than many supposed alternatives in the market. In this way, customers not only receive legal certainty and digital independence, but also the operational reainess in order to further develop their IT infrastructure, innovative and future-proof.

AWS thus contributes decisively to digital competitiveness and added value in Europe, and and Protos officially accompanies this path as a launch partner With a clear hands-on implementation: from tailor-made architecture to migration projects to automation solutions that create real business added values.

PROTOS als ESC Launch Partner

We realized early on that customers and interested parties have a growing need for digital sovereignty. In close partnership with AWS, Protos has been supporting preparations for several months in order to be able to provide the AWS ESC as quickly and as safely as possible.

The aim is to optimally support customers from the official start of the ESC, to migrate existing workloads smoothly or to build new applications directly in the ESC. This not only positions ourselves as a technical companion, but as a strategic partner for sustainable cloud transformation.

Technical cornerstones of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

• Independent infrastructure: Own Availability Zones and data centers within the EU, physically and logically separated from other AWS regions.

• Governance & Security:
  • Operation by an independent AWS company in Europe, led by EU citizens.
  • Dedicated European Security Operations Center (SOC).

• Network & certification:
  • Own network pops for AWS Direct Connect.
  • Own DNS (Amazon Route 53) and a European root-CA (EU -SP).

• Service offer (extract):
  • Artificial Intelligence: Amazon Sagemaker, Amazon Q & Amazon DOMPLOCK
  • Computing: Amazon EC2 & AWS Lambda
  • Container: Amazon EKS & Amazon ECS
  • Databases: Amazon Auroa, Amazon Dynamo DB & Amazon Relational Database
  • Networks: Amazon VPC
  • Sicherheit: AWS KMS & AWS Private Certificate Authority
  • Storage: Amazon S3, Amazon EBS

• Compliance & Audits:
  • Introduction of the sovereign request framework (SRF).
  • Regular audits according to standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 1/2/3 and BSI C5.

Protos complements this technology competence with practical advice and individual architecture planning, so that customers can benefit from ESC from day one.

Investment in knowledge & further education

At Protos it is a lived culture to continuously expand the skills and knowledge of the employees. The introduction of the AWS ESC was very interested in the team, and corresponding training courses were successfully completed within a very short time.

In doing so, we implement the claim to understand and adapt technological and organizational innovations from AWS at an early stage. This is the only way we can ensure that our customers benefit from new possibilities immediately – confidently, safe and efficient.

Ready for the next step

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud combines the highest demands on sovereignty and security with the innovative strength and diversity of service from AWS.

Protos stands as a launch partner for:

• Early detection in advice and consistent support for the ESC introduction.
• Deep expertise and technical excellence in AWS architectures.
• Further training, proactive adaptability and closeness to AWS.

Protos continuously creates the basis that customers can use sovereign, safe and powerful cloud solutions in Europe-ready for the digital future.