Category: Quantum Technologies

Digital sovereignty has become a cornerstone of Europe’s technological future, and the AWS Hamburg Summit—taking place on June 5 2025 at Hamburg Messe—will showcase innovation in this critical space. As organizations across Europe navigate increasingly complex regulatory requirements and data protection needs, AWS is proud to present our most comprehensive exploration of digital sovereignty solutions yet, headlined by the soon-to-be-launched AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

AWS is heading to Berlin for GITEX Europe 2025 on May 21-23. GITEX Europe is Europe’s premier technology event, attracting more than 60,000 professionals and 2,500 exhibitors from over 100 countries. Read this blog to learn more.

In India, the Quantum Computing Applications Lab (QCAL), a collaboration between the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and AWS, announced that it will strengthen its scientific research and industry focus for its second cohort, through new support from the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India, as well as Indian advanced technology consultancies and AWS Partners Mphasis and Fractal. The MeitY QCAL will accept applications for the second cohort later this month.

The AWS Cloud Credit for Research Program launched a new opportunity for Amazon Scholars and Amazon Visiting Academics to apply for AWS Promotional Credit to accelerate innovation through cloud technology. Amazon Scholars are world-class academics and Amazon Visiting Academics are pre- to newly-tenured academics, selected to tackle real-world technical challenges as they continue to teach and conduct research at their universities. AWS Promotional Credit is offered through this initiative is to support the awardees’ impactful university research that’s distinct from their work at Amazon.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in India is establishing a Quantum Computing Applications Lab, in collaboration with AWS, to accelerate quantum computing-led research and development and enable new scientific discoveries. This is MeitY’s first initiative in the country to provide scientific, academic, and developer communities with access to a quantum computing development environment in the cloud. This is also the first quantum computing applications lab on AWS Cloud to support a government’s science and technology mission at a country level.