<![CDATA[We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers.]]>We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers.

This enables EU institutions, bodies, offices & agencies (Union entities) to procure sovereign cloud services.

Scaling the use of EU cloud is key to strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty.

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Commission awards €180 million tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers

The European Commission is strengthening the European Union\'s digital sovereignty by awarding a tender that allows EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies (Union entities) to procure sovereign cloud services for up to €180 million over 6 years.

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European Commission - European Commission (ec.europa.eu)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/255eabcd-2a9c-4492-bc04-cfa9b6ad6daf/we-ve-awarded-a-180m-tender-for-sovereign-cloud-to-four-european-providers.RSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 01:52:02 GMTFri, 17 Apr 2026 08:15:52 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:08:11 GMT]]>@HennaVirkkunen
Interesting to see winning this tender partnering with (through S3NS), while Proximus only a month ago, announcing AWS as prefered worldwide supplier of cloud-infra and AI.

I'm sure their layers have done expert work shielding their deep Google and Amazon ties from this tender.
Nevertheless this looks a lot like souvereignity-washing to me.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/matv1/statuses/116437895828713343https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/matv1/statuses/116437895828713343Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:08:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:07:31 GMT]]>@TheNerdAutomaton @HennaVirkkunen

Wait, Google? I thought the European sovereign cloud programme was just an AWS instance?

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European Sovereign Cloud

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Amazon Web Services, Inc. (aws.eu)

Or is this the American tech giants flooding the zone, and making it hard to talk about public infrastructure without half the people in the discussion thinking that someone else had already decided to use American tech for the role, even when the impetus for the project is *to get away from American tech*?

How do we/policymakers resist this?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/aspragg/statuses/116420906272509971https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/aspragg/statuses/116420906272509971Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:07:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:30:30 GMT]]>@HennaVirkkunen How does the "sovereign" bit work when Google Cloud is involved? Will it be Google operating servers in Europe that are still subject to American intelligence agencies?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/superblox/statuses/116420760753293713https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/superblox/statuses/116420760753293713Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:30:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:12:33 GMT]]>@HennaVirkkunen

And if we check ownership etc. these aren't US subsidiary companies?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/kevinrns/statuses/116420454241753664https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/kevinrns/statuses/116420454241753664Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:12:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:48:44 GMT]]>@jim @fenixmaster @compfu @HennaVirkkunen
So paying the bribe to big tech with our money.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.uno/users/Imprinted/statuses/116420360546445056https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.uno/users/Imprinted/statuses/116420360546445056Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:48:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:27:51 GMT]]>@jim
So I assume Cloud Act applies here? If so, fuck that. Half measures as always.
@fenixmaster @compfu @HennaVirkkunen

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/shadowdancer/statuses/116420278480851323https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/shadowdancer/statuses/116420278480851323Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:27:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:56:21 GMT]]>@HennaVirkkunen Excellent news! Freeing Europe from US Big Tech sounds like exactly the sort of thing the EU should be doing.

Thank you!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/statsguy/statuses/116420154578570176https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/statsguy/statuses/116420154578570176Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:56:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:46:35 GMT]]>@HennaVirkkunen
this is good. Now you should have a nice talk with the guys who made the European Age Verification App.
"Talk" in the sense of chasing them outside of the territory with a large stick.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/DataKnightmare/statuses/116419880251341668https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/DataKnightmare/statuses/116419880251341668Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:46:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:25:56 GMT]]>@HennaVirkkunen
Looks like value for money compared to taxpayers here being scalped by Accenture Australia & others for AUD +$97 million for a joke upgrade of IT at the meteorological department / Bureau Of Meteorology / BOM.

(But don't worry, Accenture Australia will redesign the government's climate change risk website too, so they'll be ok.
And , former CEO, has a .)

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BOM reveals new website cost $96.5m, not $4.1m as first announced

Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has asked the weather agency's new boss to examine how the website's cost and redesign went so wrong.

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(www.abc.net.au)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/skua/statuses/116419799034576528https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/skua/statuses/116419799034576528Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:25:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:49:56 GMT]]>@jim So, not sovereign.

@fenixmaster @compfu @HennaVirkkunen

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toet.dnzm.nl/users/max/statuses/01KPDGZJJHPX1HW52853QTZPQBhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toet.dnzm.nl/users/max/statuses/01KPDGZJJHPX1HW52853QTZPQBFri, 17 Apr 2026 10:49:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:16:24 GMT]]>@HennaVirkkunen @hughbric look!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/simonhunter/statuses/116419525624983575https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/simonhunter/statuses/116419525624983575Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:16:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:16:10 GMT]]>@oaj @HennaVirkkunen "Post Telecom with its partners CleverCloud and OVHcloud, StackIT, Scaleway, and finally Proximus, which partners with S3NS (a joint venture of Thales and Google Cloud), Clarence and Mistral"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ikuturso/statuses/116419524747330964https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ikuturso/statuses/116419524747330964Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:16:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:18:25 GMT]]>@fenixmaster @compfu @HennaVirkkunen Thales operate a "sovereign" Google cloud (licenced, to create legal distance, but obviously not sovereign as in publicly owned / controlled)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.openrightsgroup.org/users/jim/statuses/116419297635520349https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.openrightsgroup.org/users/jim/statuses/116419297635520349Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:18:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:02:05 GMT]]>@HennaVirkkunen And yet, at the same time there's this opposite ugly item:
https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116418696334944957

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/pa27/statuses/116419233383170682https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/pa27/statuses/116419233383170682Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:02:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:51:33 GMT]]>@compfu Strange Thales (France) and Google?

@HennaVirkkunen

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/fenixmaster/statuses/116419191981049058https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/fenixmaster/statuses/116419191981049058Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:51:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:47:22 GMT]]>@HennaVirkkunen For those who are curious:
„The four awarded providers are European companies: Post Telecom with its partners CleverCloud and OVHcloud, StackIT, Scaleway, and finally Proximus, which partners with S3NS (a joint venture of Thales and Google Cloud), Clarence and Mistral.“

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mograph.social/users/compfu/statuses/116419175552329643https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mograph.social/users/compfu/statuses/116419175552329643Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:47:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:28:37 GMT]]>@HennaVirkkunen "joint venture with Google cloud". Trust me bro. It will be sovereign

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/TheNerdAutomaton/statuses/116419101846626825https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/TheNerdAutomaton/statuses/116419101846626825Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:28:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:27:35 GMT]]>@HennaVirkkunen Oh nice, does that mean we'll soon be able to consult EU laws online without running random from servers?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://eupolicy.social/users/ilumium/statuses/116419097726424913https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://eupolicy.social/users/ilumium/statuses/116419097726424913Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:27:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:24:09 GMT]]>@HennaVirkkunen: excellent! Which providers are we talking about?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.com.pl/users/oaj/statuses/116419084252675308https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.com.pl/users/oaj/statuses/116419084252675308Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:24:09 GMT