Major Contribution to IPCEI-CIS Helps Accelerate Europe’s Move from US Hyperscalers to Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure
Amsterdam, March 27, 2025 – Leaseweb, a leading cloud services and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, today shared a major update on its contribution to the EU’s Important Projects of Common European Interest on Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS). With its European Cloud Campus project, Leaseweb is actively building the foundation for a sovereign European cloud – designed to protect sensitive data, comply with EU regulations, and ensure that Europe’s digital infrastructure is no longer dependent on US providers.
In the last nine months, Leaseweb has made an industry-leading contribution to the IPCEI-CIS initiative, including developing powerful and flexible cloud infrastructure. This includes creating a scalable compute platform with enhanced automation capabilities, including an open API to streamline automation initially for virtual machines, with plans to integrate physical servers and storage in 2025-26. The company has also developed data integration tools for interaction with public cloud compute services, with ongoing enhancements for greater efficiency and scalability. Additionally, Leaseweb has created a flexible, multi-tenant system for running applications, enabling independent operations within shared clusters. This incorporates backend services and a scalable container platform, currently in beta, with full integration expected in 2025. These activities form the foundation for new, sovereign cloud services in Europe.
As the platform expands, Leaseweb continues to enhance management tools, ensuring an intuitive and adaptable cloud environment, further expanding compute and storage capabilities with increased automation and flexibility. Strengthening the integration between compute and container platforms will be a key priority, allowing for more efficient operations. In addition, Leaseweb is committed to enhancing monitoring and self-healing features, ensuring the cloud infrastructure remains resilient, scalable, and future-proof.
“Leaseweb has been vocal about the risks of outsourcing European data storage and cloud services to non-EU technology firms, with particular concerns over data sovereignty, compliance with EU regulations and over-dependence on US service providers,” said Robert van der Meulen, Director Product Strategy at Leaseweb. “We recognize and support the strategic urgency of reducing dependency on foreign infrastructure for critical workloads and sensitive data and will continue to play a leading role in driving the success of this initiative.”
About Leaseweb
Leaseweb is a leading Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider serving a worldwide portfolio of 20,000 customers ranging from SMBs to Enterprises. Services include Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Dedicated Servers , Colocation, Content Delivery Network , and Cyber Security Services supported by exceptional customer service and technical support. With more than 80,000 servers, Leaseweb has provided infrastructure for mission-critical websites, Internet applications, email servers, security, and storage services since 1997. The company operates 28 data centers in locations across Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, all of which are backed by a superior worldwide network with a total capacity of more than 10 Tbps.
Leaseweb offers services through its various Leaseweb Sales Entities which are Leaseweb Netherlands B.V., Leaseweb USA, Inc., Leaseweb Singapore PTE. LTD, Leaseweb Deutschland GmbH, Leaseweb Australia Ltd., Leaseweb UK Ltd, Leaseweb Japan KK, Leaseweb Hong Kong LTD, and Leaseweb Canada Inc.
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