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Airbus shifts 70 critical AWS apps to Scaleway
Airbus is moving 70 critical applications from AWS to Scaleway as part of a broader push to keep 900 sensitive systems under European control.
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Airbus is moving 70 critical applications from AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway, part of a wider plan to keep 900 applications — including ERP, CRM, manufacturing execution systems, and product lifecycle management — under European control.
The decision follows a process that The Register first revealed in December, when Airbus said it needed to ensure sensitive data remained protected from foreign reach and planned to launch a tender at the start of 2026. According to Catherine Jestin, Airbus’s head of digital, Scaleway won on both technology and price.
“The selection of Scaleway is a combination of a very strong technical answer and a very strong commercial offer making it competitive compared to hyperscalers' public cloud offerings. In addition, Scaleway is committed to involving Airbus in the definition of its future product roadmap.”
Jestin said the goal is to host Airbus’s most critical systems, defined as those needed for the Minimum Viable Company. She added that moving those workloads to a European provider was not guaranteed when the process began, because local cloud companies lack the scale of major US rivals.
Airbus is not cutting ties with American providers. AWS will continue to host Skywise, its aviation data platform, as well as the Case Management Assistant used for customer technical queries. Airbus also plans to keep using US vendors including Salesforce, Coupa, and Workday, while still relying on the productivity suites from Microsoft and Google.
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In a statement, Jestin said the company wants a trusted, high-performance cloud setup that keeps critical data assets shielded from foreign extraterritorial laws. The move comes as European concerns over the US Cloud Act have intensified, especially amid fresh geopolitical friction between the US and Europe since President Donald Trump returned to power for a second term.
That pressure has pushed AWS, Microsoft, and Google to promote sovereign cloud offerings in Europe. But Airbus’s latest decision shows how some of the region’s biggest industrial groups are still looking to local providers for their most sensitive workloads. AWS declined to comment.
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