MSP360 Adds Support for AWS European Sovereign Cloud

- The AWS European Sovereign Cloud launched its first region in Brandenburg, Germany, backed by a €7.8 billion investment. This cloud is a physically and logically separate infrastructure operated exclusively by EU residents to ensure that all customer data and metadata remain within the EU. - This sovereign cloud offering is a direct response to regulations like the NIS2 Directive, which mandates stronger cybersecurity measures and incident reporting for essential service providers across 18 critical sectors in the EU. - The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) also drives adoption, requiring financial institutions to implement comprehensive ICT risk management, conduct regular resilience testing, and manage third-party provider risks, with compliance mandated by January 17, 2025. - Key features of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud include independent billing and usage metering systems, and dedicated networking and DNS infrastructure using European top-level domains. All operations, support, and access are handled by EU residents located within the EU. - Upon launch, the sovereign cloud offered around 70 services, including core compute, storage, and AI services like Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and AWS Lambda. - Other data management and security vendors, such as Commvault and Cohesity, have also been named launch partners for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, indicating a growing ecosystem to support data sovereignty requirements. - Both NIS2 and DORA hold senior management directly accountable for non-compliance with cybersecurity risk management measures, elevating the issue of data sovereignty to a board-level concern. - The regulations necessitate robust incident reporting, with DORA requiring financial entities to classify and report significant ICT-related incidents, and NIS2 mandating notification of incidents that could cause significant disruption.