"The decision to award four contracts in parallel is deliberate: the Commission said it structured the outcome to ensure diversification and resilience, avoiding over-reliance on a single provider."
"Each winner was assessed against the Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework, which measures sovereignty across eight objectives covering strategic, legal, operational, and environmental considerations."
"The most politically significant element of the award is the inclusion of the Proximus-S3NS consortium, which runs on technology ultimately owned by an American company."
"The Commission addressed this directly in its announcement, stating that 'no'."
The European Commission has awarded a six-year sovereign cloud framework contract worth €180 million to four provider groups: Post Telecom with CleverCloud and OVHcloud, StackIT, Scaleway, and Proximus with S3NS, a Thales-Google Cloud joint venture. This decision allows EU institutions to purchase sovereign cloud services while ensuring diversification and resilience. The Proximus consortium's inclusion indicates that non-European technology can qualify as 'sovereign' if governed strictly. Each winner was evaluated based on the Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework, which includes various strategic and legal considerations.
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