Google features prominently in a new partnership announced on Monday, April 13 that aims to deliver a trusted cloud platform for European organisations, OpenText said.
OpenText said it has formed a strategic partnership with S3NS and Google Cloud to provide a hybrid trusted cloud architecture out of France, enabling organisations to keep their most sensitive data workloads within a locally governed environment while leveraging hyperscaler cloud services for non‑sensitive workloads, innovation, and scale.
Shannon Bell, Chief Digital Officer and Chief Information Officer at OpenText, said “OpenText has spent years building trusted, secure content solutions for the world’s most regulated industries and regions including FedRAMP‑authorized, IRAP‑assessed, and Protected B‑aligned deployments.”
Bell added that making OpenText’s solution available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud brings that expertise to a sovereign cloud purpose‑built for the European Union, and that “together with AWS, we are giving customers the confidence to innovate at scale without compromising on control.”
The announcement described the AWS European Sovereign Cloud as a fully featured, independently operated sovereign cloud backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections designed to meet the needs of European governments and enterprises.
AdSense Experiments And Sitemap Status Discussion
Google said it will experiment with an updated set of commonly used ad technology partners for Google AdSense, with experiments starting on or after April 20, 2026, and a possible list update on or after June 5, 2026 if the experiment is beneficial for publishers.
The company wrote that the update will reflect partners that work most closely with publishers globally, determined by data from programmatic demand sources and by meeting Google’s privacy standards, and that publishers can view the current and experimental partner lists at Manage your ad technology partners.
Publishers will find controls in Privacy & messaging on the European regulations settings page under the Your ad partners menu, and may prevent automatic updates by selecting “Do not automatically include commonly used ad partners,” which creates a custom, pre‑filled list.
Google added that if a publisher uses a third‑party consent management platform to collect GDPR consent, the list of ad tech partners is managed through that CMP provider, and the announcement prompted forum discussion at X.
Separately, Google was asked whether it would add a “still processing” status to XML sitemap reports for pages that have been crawled but not fully processed. John Mueller said he has “chatted with the teams involved about this on and off” and acknowledged it can be annoying, but he added he had “nothing to announce.”
The question came from Kyle Risley, who suggested a “still processing” or similar status would avoid the misleading “couldn’t fetch” label for sitemaps that have been crawled but are not fully processed, and shared a screenshot to a help document as part of the query.
