In order to strengthen enterprise-level disaster recovery and immutable backup capabilities in Germany, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a historic €7.8 billion investment in May 2024. This investment includes the establishment of a sovereign AWS data center region in Brandenburg, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2025.
Additionally, AWS is improving backup services, including AWS Backup with cross-region support for S3 and Neptune, throughout European regions like Frankfurt, Paris, and Zurich. German customers may now centrally manage graph-database backup rules and replicate across regions for increased resilience thanks to AWS's extension of Backup support for Amazon Neptune to the Frankfurt region in November 2024.
In the meantime, Microsoft Germany supported the deployment of sovereign backup solutions for major clients like Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Telekom, provided C5-certified, GDPR-compliant backup and recovery, and continued to expand its Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery services throughout its German regions (Frankfurt, Magdeburg) in 2023 and 2025.
Veeam Software's Data Platform 23H2 update was released in mid-2024. It included features that are especially useful for German businesses managing hybrid cloud data protection workflows, such as AI-driven backup assistance, immutability safeguards for cloud object storage (AWS S3, Azure Blob), and automated recovery verification.
Furthermore, Acronis maintained cloud infrastructure in Germany for its Acronis Cyber Backup and Disaster Recovery suite in early 2025, further expanding its European presence and providing onshore data sovereignty to regulated industries including manufacturing and healthcare.