OpenText brings AI to EU sovereign cloud

OpenText said on April 13 it will make a set of enterprise data and artificial intelligence products available on the Amazon Web Services European Sovereign Cloud for customers in the European Union. (opentext.com) The company said the lineup includes OpenText Content Management, OpenText Cybersecurity Cloud, OpenText IT Operations Management and OpenText Aviator, its artificial intelligence layer. OpenText said the offer is aimed at regulated sectors that need data, operations and governance kept inside European boundaries. (opentext.com) A sovereign cloud is a cloud setup built to keep data in a specific legal jurisdiction and limit who can run or access the systems. Amazon Web Services says its European Sovereign Cloud is entirely located in the European Union, physically and logically separate from other Amazon Web Services regions, and operated day to day by European Union-resident staff. (aws.amazon.com, aws.eu) Amazon Web Services opened the European Sovereign Cloud to general customers in January 2026, more than two years after first announcing the project in October 2023. Amazon also said in January that it plans to invest more than 7.8 billion euros in the German footprint and support an average of 2,800 full-time equivalent jobs annually. (aws.amazon.com, press.aboutamazon.com, aws.amazon.com) For OpenText, the move extends a sovereign-cloud model it already sells in North America into the European Union. The company said customers will be able to use Amazon Web Services infrastructure while keeping sensitive data and governance controls anchored in Europe. (investors.opentext.com) The timing reflects a wider scramble among software vendors to prove that artificial intelligence tools can run under stricter European compliance rules. Amazon Web Services says the platform is designed for customers with data residency, operational autonomy and resiliency requirements, especially governments and highly regulated industries. (aws.amazon.com, aws.amazon.com) OpenText is also building a second European sovereign route outside Amazon Web Services. On the same day, the company said it is partnering with S3NS, the Thales and Google Cloud joint venture in France, on a hybrid trusted cloud architecture for European workloads. (tmcnet.com) That leaves OpenText selling the same basic promise through more than one infrastructure partner: artificial intelligence-ready business software, with the legal and operational controls European customers increasingly ask for. (opentext.com, aws.eu)