There are 28 companies, including Aruba from the very beginning, which are committed to making their cloud services compliant with the requirements of the Gaia-X project. This is the main objective promoted by Structura-X, the initiative supported by European cloud providers, and made official in December 2021, which is added to the previous flagship projects launched for the automotive sector (Catena X), the agricultural sector (AgriGaia) and financial (EuroDat). The first certified offers should see the light by the middle of this year. On the sidelines of the Gaia-X summit held in Milan in November 2021, the then German Economy Minister, Peter Altmaier, had already on that occasion launched the idea of creating a Gaia-X compliant infrastructure in Europe, to be added to sectoral services. In collaboration with Aisbl, the Gaia-X Foundation, seven European providers have thus given life to the project: Aruba.it, Atos, De-Cix, Deutsche Telekom, Engineering, Noovle and Top-Ix. In the meantime, other companies from all over Europe have joined and, to date, there are 28 members of Structura-X from 10 different countries: among them AssoSoftware, City Network, Cloud & Heat Technologies, CS Group, CSI, EBRC, Elmec, Fabasoft, International Dataspaces, IONOS SE, KPN, Luxinnovation, Mainstream, next layer, OpenNebula Systems, OSISM, ThreeFold Tech, Tietoevry, United Group and Vivacom. The new members not only deploy their own infrastructure services, but also agree to use (open-soure) technology to make their cloud services interoperable, while respecting security and privacy. “We very much welcome the initiative from infrastructure providers,” commented Max Ahrens, chairman of the board of directors of Gaia-X. “Sectoral implementation of Gaia-X standards by cloud and infrastructure managers is an essential element for exercising data sovereignty in Europe,” he noted. Structura-X invites additional Cloud Service Providers to join the project. The common goal is to model the respective existing infrastructure services in a shared eco-system for European data sovereignty, therefore a single European cloud infrastructure, which gives users the possibility to experiment and develop their own services and rooms. data in Gaia-X compliant infrastructures. Structura-X will work closely with Gaia-X Aisbl, which among other things defines the technical requirements for data sovereignty. At the same time, Structura-X will create a new multi-sectoral and transnational collaboration in the cloud. In this way, the previous fragmentation of the European cloud market will be overcome. Structura-X’s communication comes just a few days after that of Cispe – spokesperson for cloud infrastructure service providers in Europe – which announced that Aruba, Aws (Amazon Web Services), Elogic, Leaseweb, Outscale and OvhCloud are the first its members to declare the compliance of their services with its Code of Conduct for data protection. The Cispe Code, validated by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and approved by the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL), is the first code of conduct of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) specifically designed to cloud infrastructure service providers. Specifically, Aruba is the first Italian provider to obtain the declaration of compliance with the Cispe Code of Conduct by Bureau Veritas for the following solutions: Cloud Vps, Cloud Pro, Private Cloud, Cloud Object Storage, Cloud Backup, DBaaS, DRaaS E IaaS Sap for Hana.