Investing.com -- Thales announced Wednesday a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to establish a sovereign cloud solution in Germany, designed to meet stringent digital sovereignty requirements for public sector organizations and highly regulated industries.

The solution will operate on dedicated infrastructure managed by a new German entity, which Thales will fully own and control. The entity will be staffed and managed by local German personnel, ensuring that no third party, including non-European entities, can access stored or processed data.

"Germany represents a critical market for sovereign technologies, and this partnership is a direct response to private and public sector German organizations wanting access to Google Cloud's technology under full German control," said Christoph Ruffner, CEO and Country Director of Thales in Germany.

The offering is available in preview and aims for general availability by the end of 2026. The solution is being developed to meet regulatory requirements including C5 and the new C3A framework criteria.

The partnership establishes a new German entity that will be legally and operationally independent from Google Cloud. This entity will operate alongside PREMI3NS by S3NS, a Thales subsidiary in France, creating what the companies describe as the first pan-European, geo-redundant sovereign cloud offering.

"By combining the power and scale of Google Cloud with Thales' deep expertise in cybersecurity and local operational control, we are enabling German organizations even in the most sensitive sectors to innovate with confidence," said Marianne Janik, Vice President, EMEA North, Google Cloud.

The new German region will use a technology and operating model identical to PREMI3NS by S3NS in France. S3NS achieved SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification for its PREMI3NS offering at the end of 2025.

Thales employs 2,300 people across nine sites in Germany, with a presence in the country dating back to 1880. The official name of the new German entity will be unveiled in the coming months.