On Wednesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it will be launching a new sovereign cloud service in Europe designed to cater to governments and customers which operate in highly regulated industries.

The computing division of Amazon said in a statement, the new sovereign cloud would maintain the servers for the storage of its data in the European Union, and that only employees of the company who were residents of the EU would have control over the server farm’s operations, and offer support to customers.

The announcement comes amid an increasing push within the European Union to advance new privacy and information security legislation, as its privacy watchdog is pursuing a probe it launched last year into the public’s use of cloud-based services, and how those services comply with the bloc’s privacy safeguards.

Increasingly, businesses and governments have transitioned their data systems to use the data centers of public cloud systems, run offsite by large big-tech companies, rather than building out their own infrastructure. Both Oracle and Microsoft have also launched regionally targeted cloud versions for customers with European governments, which require greater security.

The new Euro-centric AWS service will first launch in Germany, before making its service available to all of its customers in Europe.