AWS Will Run Its European Sovereign Cloud Without the Global Backbone for Several Hours

October 18, 2026 · 5:30 am 1 sources

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• AWS Will Run Its European Sovereign Cloud Without the Global Backbone for Several Hours
  InfoQ · October 18, 2026 05:30
  On October 24, AWS will operate its European Sovereign Cloud without a connection to the AWS Global Network backbone, with a team of EU residents and the region’s own hardware and software. AWS says neither of the two systems being severed is operation-critical, and practitioners are divided over…