Microsoft is further expanding its sovereign cloud offerings for European customers.

The cloud giant has introduced new solutions for its Azure cloud, all aiming to reassure European organizations by offering them more control.

This builds on Microsoft’s earlier commitment to Europe in the wake of concerns about geopolitical volatility.

In April, company president Brad Smith announced in a blog post that Microsoft would increase its data center capacity in Europe by 40 percent over the next two years, and reassured customers that moves by the US administration would not impact its services or their security.

Among the new announcements, shared in a blog post by Judson Althoff, Microsoft EVP and chief commercial officer, are a Sovereign Public Cloud, described as an “evolution and expansion of the Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty,” and to be offered from all existing European data center regions to ensure customer data stays in Europe and under European law.

Additionally, a new sovereign private cloud will support critical collaboration, communication, and virtualization services workloads on Azure Local, Microsoft’s on-premises offering.

Further additions include a data guardian for European operations, external key management for customer-controlled encryption, and regulated environment management for simplified configuration, among others.

In addition, Microsoft is set to preview a Microsoft Sovereign Cloud specialization in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, which will enable European customers to find partners that ensure sovereignty with AI. Preview partners include Accenture, Arvato Systems, Atea, Atos, Crayon, Capgemini, Dell Technologies, IBM, Inspark, Infosys, Lenovo, Leonardo, NTT Data, Orange, Telefónica Tech, and Vodafone.

Microsoft already operates National Partner Clouds in France and Germany. The French cloud, dubbed “Bleu,” is a joint venture between Orange and Capgemini, while in Germany, the company has an agreement with Delos Cloud to operate a sovereign cloud.

Both Google and Amazon Web Services have similarly reaffirmed their EU sovereign offerings of late. In May 2025, Google said that its updated sovereign cloud solution includes the Google Cloud Data Boundary, which enables customers to create a data boundary and control where data is stored and processed, including ensuring data processing is either in the US or EU and specifying the country where it is stored.

The company also added a “User Data Shield,” which adds Mandiant services to validate security for applications built on top of the data boundary.

AWS, meanwhile, revealed it was establishing its AWS European Sovereign Cloud as a new company that would have an independent European governance structure and its own dedicated Security Operations Center, led by a new European Union-led parent company, in June 2025.