Monaco Cloud: the first sovereign cloud in Europe

The Principality is becoming the first European country to set up a sovereign cloud. Monaco Cloud will be operational in 2021.

In 2021, the Principality will add an additional element to Extended Monaco, its digital transition programme. “Monaco will be the first country in Europe to launch its own sovereign cloud,” announced Prince Albert II of Monaco in September 2020. Monaco Cloud’s shareholders are 100% Monegasque – the State holds the majority stake – and will thus enable government data and that of private businesses to be stored in the Principality, under Monegasque law.

The sovereign cloud will accelerate the introduction of digital identity from summer 2021, as a result of which every Monegasque national and resident will have a digital identity linked to their new identity card or residence permit, including highly secure authentication.

Each user will have access to all of the Government’s digital services through a single website and will no longer need to re-enter information that is already known to the Government.