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Growing concerns about reliance on technology corporations from the US, Germany, and the European Union (EU) are driving the development of sovereign cloud platforms to enhance data control and ensure digital security.

The cloud computing infrastructure market in Europe is currently dominated by American companies. According to CNBC data, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon hold up to 70% of this infrastructure market share, forcing most online services on the continent to rely on them. This dependence is facing increasingly significant legal and strategic hurdles.

However, the core reason for Europe's shift in attitude stems from concerns about the US Cloud Act. This document allows the US government to require domestic technology companies to provide data even if that information is stored on servers located abroad. This, combined with shifts in US foreign policy and judicial policy, has created direct legal risks to data security and digital infrastructure globally.

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Despite having domestic providers in France, Germany , and Belgium, Europe has yet to create a worthy competitor to American tech corporations in terms of infrastructure scale and mass service capabilities. Under this pressure, the race to build a sovereign cloud is accelerating, with the participation of Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Vodafone.

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Hagen Rickmann, Vodafone's Director of Enterprise Clients in Europe, confirmed that the company is AWS's telecommunications partner in this segment, handling everything from distribution to operation and system integration. Not to be left behind, Google and Microsoft are also rapidly expanding their data infrastructure in key areas of Germany such as Hessen and Rheinisches Revier.

In late May, the European Commission is expected to announce its Technology Sovereignty Package. This is part of an effort to strengthen strategic autonomy in key digital areas. One of the most important issues under discussion is restricting member governments from using US cloud services to process sensitive data in the financial, judicial, and health sectors. These proposals are not intended to completely ban foreign companies but will establish strict barriers depending on the sensitivity of public sector data.

Previously, the EU enacted the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA), considered antitrust tools, primarily targeting large US technology corporations such as Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft.

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