Curated Collection

French Sovereign Cloud & Infrastructure

The infrastructure layer for buyers who need to know exactly which jurisdiction their data sits in.

11 hand-picked European tools · curated by European Tech Map

For organisations subject to French regulators, defense contracts, or simply CLOUD Act concerns, French sovereign cloud providers are the answer. This collection covers the core hyperscaler alternatives, PaaS layers, hosting, registrars and virtualization platforms — all headquartered and operated from France.

  1. 1. OVHcloud

    Hyperscaler alternative

    Roubaix, France

    Europe's largest cloud provider — IaaS, PaaS, bare metal, managed databases. Public, French, no US parent.

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  2. 2. Scaleway

    Developer cloud

    Paris, France

    Iliad-group cloud with serverless, GPU, managed Kubernetes and Postgres. Strong on AI workloads.

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  8. 8. Gandi

    Domain registrar and DNS

    Paris, France

    Independent registrar with privacy defaults, hosted email and SSL certificates.

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  9. 9. Vates

    Virtualization

    Grenoble, France · Open source

    XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra — the open-source VMware alternative.

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Frequently asked questions

Which French cloud providers are SecNumCloud-qualified?
3DS OUTSCALE and Cloud Temple hold SecNumCloud qualification, the highest French cybersecurity standard for cloud — required for sensitive government and operator-of-vital-importance workloads.
Is OVHcloud subject to the US CLOUD Act?
No. OVHcloud is a French-headquartered, French-listed company with no US parent and no US operations that would expose it to extraterritorial US data requests.

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