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EU Commission awards EUR 180 million sovereign cloud contract to four EU firms

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.

Verified AI-drafted European Commission press release, 17 April 2026

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

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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