Amazon Web Services will open its third European datacenter cluster by early 2017, CTO Werner Vogels said Friday.
The move will “provide … strong data sovereignty to local users,” Vogels wrote in a blog post.
Data sovereignty — or which country has jurisdiction over data — is a hot topic in the European Union, where the processing of citizens’ personal information is subject to strict data protection laws.
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