IONOS Wins €67.5M German School Cloud Contract

German cloud provider IONOS secured a four-year framework contract worth up to €67.5 million to deliver an open-source collaboration platform for schools across six federal states. The initiative aims to reduce public sector dependence on major US technology companies.

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IONOS GROUP SE secured a four-year framework contract worth €67.5 million on Tuesday morning to build a sovereign school cloud platform for six federal states in Germany.

The deal highlights Europe's accelerating push to decouple public institutions from proprietary U.S. tech ecosystems. Procurement manager govdigital eG structured the contract to bypass standard dependence on MICROSOFT CORP and ALPHABET INC-CL A software.