From InfoWorld: Amazon Web Services will open its third European datacenter cluster by early 2017, CTO Werner Vogels said Friday.
The move will "provide ... strong data sovereignty to local users," Vogels wrote in a blog post.
Data sovereignty -- or which country has jurisdiction over data -- is a hot topic in the European Union, where the processing of citizens' personal information is subject to strict data protection laws.
Those laws require that personal data sent outside the EU be given the same legal protection as at home. Exports of data to the U.S. were, until recently, simplified by the Safe Harbor Agreement, under which over 4,000 companies certified they would respect EU regulations when processing EU data in the U.S.
With the striking down of the Safe Harbor Agreement by the EU's top court last month, many of those companies were cast into a legal void, frantically trying to put alternative legal mechanisms into place to continue their business.
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