Pan-European bandwidth infrastructure company euNetworks has been named a connectivity partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, the independent Amazon Web Services region purpose-built to meet EU data residency, operational autonomy and resiliency requirements. The Frankfurt-dated announcement on 14 April places euNetworks among the first connectivity partners publicly named for the new cloud.
Under the partnership, euNetworks will provide private, direct connections into the AWS European Sovereign Cloud through its Cloud Connect service, allowing customer traffic to stay within the EU and inside controlled network paths. The company operates 18 metropolitan fibre networks connected via a high-capacity intercity backbone spanning 53 cities across 17 countries, with direct connections to more than 600 data centres and every major cloud platform.
Marisa Trisolino, CEO of euNetworks, said data sovereignty has moved from a compliance topic to a primary commercial priority for European organisations:
Data sovereignty is one of the most critical topics for businesses right now and this priority is only set to grow in strength, particularly in the EU and wider Europe where regulatory pressures continue to rise. euNetworks is perfectly placed to support organisations in keeping their data safe by providing secure access to sovereign cloud platforms. Our European focus, data centre to data centre connectivity leadership and high-performance, private connectivity mean customers can trust that their data is secure and compliant.
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud, announced by AWS as a fully featured region operated independently from its existing infrastructure, is designed to give European governments and enterprises access to AWS services under technical, legal and governance controls that remain within EU jurisdiction. Connectivity partners such as euNetworks form part of the supporting fabric, providing the private network paths that let customers meet residency obligations end to end rather than just at the storage layer.
For regulated European buyers, partnerships of this kind matter because the economics of sovereign cloud only hold if the network entering the region is as tightly controlled as the compute and storage inside it. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud goes live with that constraint partially solved at launch, with more connectivity partners expected to follow.
