AWS European Sovereign Cloud Strategic Screening

AWS European Sovereign Cloud Strategic Screening is a structured 2-day assessment to determine whether transitioning to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) is strategically and technically meaningful for your organization. Delivered by Storm Reply, an AWS Premier Tier Partner and part of the Reply Group.

What we screen

• Sovereignty & regulatory context: map regulatory-driven requirements (GDPR, NIS2, DORA) to your cloud workloads and their AWS architecture implications
• Architecture & service compatibility: analyze current AWS workloads against ESC partition constraints and service availability
• IAM, federation & governance impact: implications of ESC's isolated identity management and EU-based control planes on your operating model
• Billing & commitment model: quantify transition cost considerations using AWS Cost Explorer and the AWS Pricing Calculator

How it runs (2 days)

• Day 1: stakeholder interviews and architecture walkthrough
• Day 2: consolidation and presentation of findings
• Deliverable: a concise feasibility summary (8–12 slide deck or 4–5 page PDF) with an ESC Impact Complexity Score and a clear next-step recommendation

Benefits

• Reduce decision uncertainty: structured go / conditional / no-go recommendation in just 2 working days
• Avoid costly missteps: prevent over- or underestimating ESC effort — saving weeks of unstructured internal analysis
• Strengthen regulatory posture: map GDPR / NIS2 / DORA context to concrete architectural implications for audit readiness
• Quantify impact: ESC Impact Complexity Score + Sovereignty Benefit-vs-Effort matrix for data-driven prioritization
• Accelerate planning: executive-ready input for board-level decisions and a follow-up transition roadmap
• Minimize risk: surface partition constraints, IAM federation impacts and governance gaps before a full migration

Why Storm Reply AWS Premier Tier Partner within the Reply Group, with hands-on sovereign-AWS expertise across Financial Services, Manufacturing, Automotive and Public Sector. Active contributors to the European sovereignty discussion (expert webinars, a dedicated sovereign-cloud whitepaper, and the proprietary Road.MAP to Sovereignty methodology), combining deep AWS platform knowledge with European data-residency expertise for balanced, technically grounded evaluations.