SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

havochavoc OGContent WriterSenpai

SAP says it will pump €20 billion into expanding sovereign cloud infrastructure in Europe over the next ten years, pitching itself as a secure and compliant alternative to American cloud giants.

The Germany-based enterprise software biz is looking to provide sovereign infrastructure for the public sector and regulated environments, said Thomas Saueressig, board member for customer services and delivery.

"With our expanded SAP Sovereign Cloud offering, SAP is unlocking access to the full spectrum of cloud innovations and AI capabilities for all markets and industries while ensuring these advancements are delivered in a sovereign framework and on customers' own terms."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/sap_sovereign_cloud/

Comments

  • Until this even moves into realization from paper Trump will be gone long over.

  • havochavoc OGContent WriterSenpai

    That plus 20B seems a bit thin for a hyperscaler competitor

  • Listing top 20 cloud providers by country, SAP came up as #19, the only one based in Europe, and is just above VMware cloud.

    Looks like out of top 10, 7 are taken by USA, with almost all of the top 7 being US based companies.

    It's going to be uphill battle for SAP, unless the receive support from EU...

    Rank  Provider             Country
    ----  -------------------  ---------
    1     Amazon Web Services  USA
    2     Microsoft Azure      USA
    3     Google Cloud         USA
    4     Alibaba Cloud        China
    5     Oracle Cloud         USA
    6     Salesforce           USA
    7     IBM Cloud            USA
    8     Tencent Cloud        China
    9     Huawei Cloud         China
    10    Snowflake            USA
    11    Akamai               USA
    12    Baidu Cloud          China
    13    China Telecom Cloud  China
    14    China Unicom Cloud   China
    15    CoreWeave            USA
    16    Databricks           USA
    17    Fujitsu Cloud        Japan
    18    NTT Cloud            Japan
    19    SAP Cloud            Germany
    20    VMware Cloud         USA
    

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