AWS

Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon, launched in 2006 and now the world's largest cloud platform by market share, holding approximately 31% of global cloud infrastructure revenue. Its European data centres are located primarily in Ireland, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Milan, Paris, and Zurich. AWS is subject to the US CLOUD Act, a persistent sovereignty concern for European enterprise customers, and was among the cloud providers named in the European Commission's formal DMA interoperability probe opened in 2025.

In April 2026, Amazon announced €33.7 billion of European cloud and AI infrastructure investment spanning Aragón and several other regions — one of the largest single cloud investment commitments in EU history. That announcement sits alongside the first data centre lawsuit in Spain: a Coalition led by Ecologistas en Acción filed at the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Aragón in January 2026, challenging the regional government's agreement with Amazon covering 30 data centre buildings and 10 electrical substations across four Aragonese locations, on grounds of projected water consumption and infrastructure impact. Construction runs 2027-2031 with final completion 2031-2036. Amazon continues to publish no electricity figures, a transparency deficit flagged alongside Microsoft's water disclosure in the same data centres briefing period.

AWS was also excluded from the EU's €180 million sovereign cloud procurement awarded in April 2026 to four unnamed European providers. European cloud sovereignty advocates — including OVHcloud, Hetzner, and Scaleway — have welcomed both the DMA probe and the procurement exclusion as validating their longstanding argument that hyperscaler pricing is deliberately anti-competitive.