EU data sovereignty

Move regulated workloads to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

We assess workload fit, design the target architecture, and execute the migration with EU data residency, service availability, and auditability treated as first-class constraints from the start.
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Free 30-minute intro call, no commitment. Fixed-price sovereignty assessment from $495, agreed before any paid work starts. See how pricing works Your team's time: a kickoff call and a walkthrough of the findings; we do the rest.

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The sovereignty assessment

Find the blockers before the migration starts.

Every sovereign migration starts with a fixed-price assessment. We check each dependency of the workload against what runs in eusc-de-east-1 today and trace where its data goes, so the blockers show up in a report instead of halfway through the migration.

  1. 01

    Service fit

    Every dependency checked against the Region, with a replacement or a launch date for anything missing.

  2. 02

    Data residency

    Where content, logs, backups and third-party tools send data, and which of those flows leave the EU.

  3. 03

    Compliance

    Your regulatory requirements mapped to controls in the sovereign setup, with evidence your auditors can reuse.

  4. 04

    Landing zone

    The organization, identity and guardrails the new partition needs before the first workload moves.

Built for EU public sector teams, regulated industries, and SaaS companies whose EU customers or regulators require EU-only operations. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is new, so every team moving now is an early adopter, us included: we work through the blockers with you rather than from a playbook of past sovereign moves.

Why a sovereign migration is different

The sovereign cloud is a separate partition, not another Region.

Moving from Frankfurt to Brandenburg looks like a Region change, but the AWS European Sovereign Cloud runs as its own partition, aws-eusc, with its own IAM, organization, billing and endpoints. Credentials from commercial AWS do not work inside it.

  1. 01

    ARNs and endpoints

    Every hardcoded arn:aws: and amazonaws.com in your code and pipelines becomes partition-aware, since the sovereign cloud uses arn:aws-eusc: and amazonaws.eu.

  2. 02

    Identity

    A new organization and a separate IAM Identity Center instance on your existing identity provider, because no role assumption crosses the partition.

  3. 03

    Pipelines and artifacts

    ECR images, AMIs and S3 objects cannot replicate across, so they are rebuilt or pushed into the partition with their own credentials.

  4. 04

    Billing

    A separate payer billed in euros, with cost reports that stay inside the partition.

How the migration runs

From the assessment to a sovereign workload your team runs

Sovereignty is decided before the first workload moves. The assessment sets the plan, the landing zone sets the boundary, and each migration wave ends with evidence that the data stayed in the EU.

  1. Fixed price

    Sovereignty assessment

    We map the workload, check every dependency against eusc-de-east-1 and trace where its data goes, then walk your team through the findings and the plan.

    • Service-fit report
    • Data residency map
    • Compliance and landing zone gaps
    • Migration plan
  2. Before the first move

    Sovereign landing zone

    We build the aws-eusc organization: accounts, IAM Identity Center on your identity provider, guardrails, central logging and a deploy path with its own credentials.

    • Organization and SCPs as code
    • Identity Center on your IdP
    • Central logging in the partition
  3. In waves

    Migrate and prove residency

    Infrastructure code becomes partition-aware, images are rebuilt inside the partition and data moves over controlled paths. Each wave ends with evidence that the data stayed in the EU.

    • Partition-aware infrastructure code
    • Images rebuilt in the partition
    • Residency evidence per wave
  4. After cutover

    Handover

    Your team gets the runbooks, the architecture decisions and the control evidence that auditors and regulators ask for after go-live.

    • Runbooks
    • Architecture decision records
    • Audit evidence
Sovereignty assessments start from
$495

We check every service your workload depends on against what the AWS European Sovereign Cloud offers, and walk your team through the blockers. You leave with the fit per service and a target architecture: move it yourselves, or have us move it for a fixed quote. More dependencies mean more to check, so $495 is where it starts.

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What teams ask
before committing to a sovereign move

What is the AWS European Sovereign Cloud?
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud infrastructure physically and logically separate from other AWS Regions. Located entirely within the EU (Germany), it's operated exclusively by EU residents under EU law, designed for organizations with strict data sovereignty and compliance requirements.
Who should migrate to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud?
Organizations in regulated industries (healthcare, finance, government), EU public sector entities, and any company with strict GDPR compliance requirements or data residency mandates. If your regulators or customers require that data never leaves the EU, the Sovereign Cloud is your solution.
Which AWS services are available in the European Sovereign Cloud?
The first Region, eusc-de-east-1, runs core services including EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, EBS, KMS, SageMaker, and Bedrock with in-Region inference. Some services are still planned, such as Amazon CloudFront for 2026 Q4 and AWS CodePipeline for 2027 Q1, and a few, like Amazon Managed Grafana, are not coming. The assessment checks every dependency of your workload against the current list before you commit.
What compliance frameworks does the Sovereign Cloud support?
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is designed to meet stringent EU regulatory requirements including GDPR. It follows the Sovereign Reference Framework (ESC-SRF) with independent third-party audits. The infrastructure provides governance independence, operational control, data residency, and technical isolation.
Can you migrate our existing AWS workloads to the Sovereign Cloud?
Yes. We specialize in migrating existing AWS workloads to the European Sovereign Cloud. This includes re-architecting applications to use available services, setting up proper account structures, and ensuring all data residency requirements are met during and after migration.
What if we don't need EU data sovereignty?
If you don't have specific EU data residency requirements, our standard AWS Cloud Migration service may be more appropriate. It provides access to all AWS services across any region without the sovereignty constraints.
Book the assessment

Book a free sovereignty call

We'll talk through your regulatory requirements and workload dependencies, and whether the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is the right path.

You talk to Danny Steenman, the engineer who does the work. Pick a time below and he confirms it by email.

  • Free 30-minute call, no commitment
  • Fixed price before any paid work
  • Compliance fit checked first