The battle for European technological sovereignty continues. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on Thursday the launch of its sovereign European cloud (AWS). European Sovereign CloudAWS has announced plans to expand its European sovereign cloud presence from Germany across the EU, a new independent cloud for Europe located within the European Union (EU) and physically and logically separate from other regions where AWS operates, with core infrastructure based in Germany. According to a company statement, this is "the only fully functional sovereign cloud, operated independently and supported by robust technical controls, sovereignty guarantees, and legal protections designed to meet the sensitive data needs of European governments and businesses." AWS also announced plans to expand its European sovereign cloud presence from Germany across the EU to support stringent requirements for isolation, in-country data residency, and low latency. This will begin with what they call new AWS Sovereign Local Zones (AWS Local Zones). Sovereign Local ZonesLocated in Portugal, Belgium, and the Netherlands, AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure that allows customers to store their data in a specific geographic location to meet data residency requirements or run latency-sensitive applications. The new zones announced this Thursday will be part of the European sovereign cloud, extending sovereignty controls from Germany to the entire EU. This will give customers with stricter data independence or residency requirements the option to use AWS. Dedicated Local Zones, AWS AI Factories either AWS Outposts in locations they select, including their own local data centers.

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, the cloud computing division of the US tech giant, caused a widespread disruption of digital services worldwide on Monday morning. The company confirmed "an increase in error rates and latency across multiple services" in its US-East-1 region, based in Northern Virginia, one of the most widely used globally for hosting websites and applications.

This Sunday you can get the magazine for free with ARA CloudSpring issue with a compilation of new literary releases for Sant Jordi and a host of cultural activities in and outside Barcelona. The magazine features a cover illustration by Italian artist Claudia Zonta.

Search giant Google has announced a definitive agreement to acquire cloud security platform Wiz, its largest-ever acquisition: $32 billion (€29.354 billion), all cash, subject to closing adjustments.