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# Ryanair signs five-year Google Cloud AI deal alongside existing AWS contract
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-08-12-ryanair-google-cloud-five-year-deal/
- Published: 2026-08-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T10:49:52.000Z
- Description: Ryanair signed a five-year deal putting Google Workspace, Gemini Enterprise agentic AI and DeepMind's AlphaEvolve and WeatherNext models across its 35,000 staff, as a second cloud alongside its existing AWS contract in a dual-cloud resilience strategy.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, #news, #verified

Verified [Google Cloud Press Corner, 12 August 2026](https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2026-08-12-Ryanair-and-Google-Cloud-Announce-Five-Year-Data-and-AI-Partnership?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This does not disclose the contract's value or show that a European cloud provider was ever considered.

**How this item counts.** Towards dependence: it changes who operates, whose law governs. Binding 2 of 3 (agreed or funded), scale 1 of 3 (small), Verified counts in full: weight -4 of 36 possible. Irish airline adds Google Cloud as second non-EU cloud alongside AWS. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)