Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a US - contrast fintech-infrastructure provider (Sovereign cloud & hosting). Verified at source - licence, regulator and registry reference. Active
Who it's for
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is built for teams hosting regulated workloads outside the US hyperscalers. As an unlicensed vendor, regulatory obligations stay on the client's side.
Sovereignty profile
- Data residency (EEA): Partial - partly in the EEA - check the rail
- Company origin: US (US)
What Amazon Web Services (AWS) does
Verified licence profile
Amazon Web Services (Seattle, US) - the global cloud hyperscaler most European fintechs actually run on. EU regions exist, but the US parent remains subject to the US CLOUD Act - the reference point of the sovereignty debate. Contrast / US.
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European alternatives to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Aruba (Bergamo/Arezzo, Italy) - Italy's largest hosting and cloud provider with Italian data centres, and a qualified trust service provider (ArubaPEC, on the AgID/EU Trusted List): qualified e-signatures, certified e-mail (PEC), SPID digital identity - plus one of Italy's biggest e-invoicing services. EU-jurisdiction stack across cloud, identity and invoicing.
Hetzner (Gunzenhausen, Germany) - German cloud and dedicated-server provider with data centres in Germany and Finland; family-owned, EU-native, price-performance leader.
IONOS (Germany) - German cloud platform (virtual servers, VPC, managed databases, object storage) with an enterprise-oriented model; EU-native jurisdiction.
Open Telekom Cloud (T-Systems / Deutsche Telekom, Germany) - enterprise public cloud operated from German data centres under EU jurisdiction; a sovereign-cloud staple for regulated workloads.
OVHcloud (Roubaix, France; founded 1999) - Europe's largest cloud provider: 3-availability-zone regions in Paris, Milan and Berlin, EU legal jurisdiction end-to-end - explicitly outside the reach of the US CLOUD Act. The default sovereign choice for EEA data residency.
Scaleway (Paris, France; Iliad Group) - French cloud provider with data centres in France, the Netherlands and Poland; EU-native, no US parent, no CLOUD Act exposure.
FAQ
Is Amazon Web Services (AWS) European / EEA-based?
Partly. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is US origin (US); part of its rail or data sits outside the EEA - check the licence profile.
What does Amazon Web Services (AWS) do?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) covers: Sovereign cloud & hosting. Verified at source by Fintechnologica.