AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Demonstrating an independent operation

On Saturday, October 24, 2026, we will conduct an exercise demonstrating that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud can operate without depending on any infrastructure outside of the European Union (EU). For several hours, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud will operate without a connection to the AWS Global Network backbone. The backbone is the private network that moves authorized AWS operational data between AWS locations without using the public internet. During the exercise,…