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# EU Commission awards EUR 180 million sovereign cloud contract to four EU firms
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-04-17-eu-commission-sovereign-cloud-contract/
- Published: 2026-04-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T10:50:43.000Z
- Description: The European Commission awarded up to EUR 180 million over six years to four EU-based providers, Post Telecom with OVHcloud and CleverCloud, STACKIT, Scaleway, and Proximus with S3NS, to host EU institutions' cloud workloads at or above SEAL-2 sovereignty assurance.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, Compute and infrastructure, #news, #verified

Verified [European Commission press release, 17 April 2026](https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/commission-advances-cloud-sovereignty-through-strategic-procurement-2026-04-17%5Fen?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that any EU institution workload has yet migrated off a non-European cloud provider, only that the contract has been awarded.

**How this item counts.** Towards autonomy: it changes who owns, who operates, whose law governs. Binding 2 of 3 (agreed or funded), scale 3 of 3 (large), Verified counts in full: weight +18 of 36 possible. EU-wide contract (EUR180m) to 4 EU-based firms for EU institution cloud hosting; awarded, not yet migrated. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)