Digital Sovereignty Controls

Digital sovereignty is the control of your digital assets: where the data resides, where it flows, and who has control over it. Since the creation of the AWS Cloud 17 years ago, we have been committed to giving you control over your data.

In November last year, we launched the AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge, our commitment to offering all AWS customers the most advanced set of sovereignty controls and features available in the cloud. Since then, we have announced several steps in that direction. The AWS Nitro System has been validated by an independent third party to confirm that it contains no mechanism that allows anyone at AWS to access your data on AWS hosts. We launched AWS Dedicated Local Zones, a piece of infrastructure that is fully managed by AWS and built for exclusive use by a customer or community and placed in a customer-specified location or data center. And more recently, we announced the construction of a new independent sovereign Region in Europe.

The introduction of AWS Control Tower controls that support digital sovereignty is an additional step in our roadmap of capabilities for data residency, granular access restriction, encryption, and resilience.The introduction of AWS Control Tower controls that support digital sovereignty is an additional step in AWS roadmap of capabilities for data residency, granular access restriction, encryption, governance, and resilience.

Read the full blog here. You can also read CSO article on this topic, and peruse the [TechCrunch] discussion of the AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge.