In the Netherlands, a legal study on AWS’s sovereign cloud has sparked an unexpected debate. Deemed too lenient by some critics of American hyperscalers, it led the Ministry of Justice to publish an explanatory memo, revealing the political and legal contradictions surrounding the concept of digital sovereignty in Europe. Digital sovereignty has become one of the most repeated buzzwords in European technology policy in recent months. But when it comes to translating it into concrete criteria for public action, the exercise proves to be much more complex than the rhetoric suggests. A controversy that arose in the Netherlands over a legal study on AWS’s sovereign cloud offers a particularly illuminating illustration of this. Sovereign AWS The…
