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Ryanair signs five-year Google Cloud AI deal alongside existing AWS contract

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.

Verified Google Cloud Press Corner, 12 August 2026

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

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