April 17 (Reuters) - The European Commission on Friday

awarded a 180 million euro ($212 million) tender for sovereign

cloud services to four European providers for a six-year period,

as part of a push to reduce the bloc's dependence on

non-European technology.

The contract was awarded to Luxembourg's Post Telecom,

Germany's StackIT, French Iliad's data centre unit Scaleway and

Belgium's Proximus.

Additionally, Post Telecom is bringing on partners OVHcloud

and CleverCloud, while Proximus leads a consortium made

up of Mistral AI, Clarence, and Thales and Google

Cloud's data centre joint venture S3NS.

($1 = 0.8488 euros)