If you manage AWS infrastructure with code, the European Sovereign Cloud adds a new partition to think about. Different endpoints, separate IAM, its own console. This guide covers what works out of the box, what needs changes, and the patterns that help when you deploy across both ESC and commercial AWS.
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) has officially launched, promising full digital sovereignty for European workloads. But beyond the headlines, important questions remain: How does pricing compare to established AWS regions? Which services are really available today—and how complete are they? In this post, we share early hands-on insights from the ESC pricing calculator, highlight practical limitations around AI, CI/CD, and platform services, and give an honest first assessment of what architects and decision-makers should expect when evaluating AWS’s new sovereign cloud.
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