EU awards €180 million sovereign cloud tenders to boost digital independence from non-EU firms

The European Commission has awarded a six-year, €180 million cloud services contract to European providers, marking a strategic move to enhance digital sovereignty and reduce reliance on non-EU technology firms.

The European Commission has awarded a six-year cloud services tender worth up to €180 million, in a move designed to give EU institutions and agencies access to sovereign cloud offerings from European-based providers and to reduce dependence on non-EU technology firms.

According to a Commission statement on 17 April, the contracts went to four provider groups: Post Telecom with CleverCloud and OVHcloud, STACKIT, Scaleway, and Proximus, which is working with S3NS, Clarence and Mistral. The award follows a competition launched in October 2025 under the Commission’s Cloud III Dynamic Purchasing System.

Officials said the selection was based on the Commission’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework, which measures sovereignty across eight criteria, including strategic, legal, operational and environmental factors, as well as supply chain transparency, technological openness, security and compliance with EU law.

The Commission said the parallel award of four contracts was intended to widen choice and improve resilience, while preventing over-reliance on a single supplier. To qualify, providers had to show that non-EU third parties have only limited influence over the technologies and services on offer.

Brussels has cast the tender as part of a broader effort to strengthen strategic control over key digital infrastructure. The Commission is also preparing a wider Tech Sovereignty package, which is expected to include an open-source strategy, Chips Act 2, a roadmap for digitalisation and AI in energy, and a Cloud and AI Development Act setting out how sovereignty rules will apply in the single market.

Source Reference Map

Inspired by headline at: ^[1]

Sources by paragraph:

Source: Fuse Wire Services