THE DATA CENTRE INTERVIEW as well as billing, identity and access management systems,” he says. The compliance-focused evidence packaging matters because many of the customers the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is designed to serve are themselves regulated entities – public sector bodies, financial institutions and healthcare organisations that must demonstrate adherence to specific frameworks.
By building the evidence packages in advance, AWS has sought to reduce the compliance burden on customers rather than leaving them to map their own requirements against the infrastructure independently.
The level of detail AWS has applied extends well beyond the headline architecture. Colm points to Route 53, the company’ s domain name system( DNS) service, as an illustration of how deep the EU-specific engineering runs.“ Internally, that also has to use its own DNS names. Well, in the EU, we’ ve made sure those are EU-based DNS names – they end in. eu, or. de, and so on.”
Certificates issued to AWS services or customer endpoints are generated by AWS’ s first European Certificate Authority, with keys managed entirely within the EU.“ That fine level of detail extends to the access control systems we use, which are all maintained inside the EU,” Colm adds.
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