The European Commission (EC) has selected the providers for its €180 million ($212m) sovereign cloud services contract.
The EC put out a tconcludeer for local cloud services back in October 2025, calling for providers to offer European Union (EU) institutions, bodies, offices, and agencies with sovereign cloud services for six years.
Today, April 17, the EC revealed that it had awarded the contract to four providers: Post Telecom, along with its partners CleverCloud and OVHcloud; StackIT; Scaleway; and Proximus, which partners with S3NS, Clarence, and Mistral.
According to the contract award notice, the tconcludeer aims to support the EC’s “broader efforts to enhance its own sovereignty, reinforcing strategic control across key technologies and infrastructure.”
The contract was awarded based on eight objectives: strategic, legal, operational, and environmental considerations, as well as supply chain transparency, technological openness, security, and compliance with EU laws.
Currently, the EC is finalizing an updated version of the Cloud Sovereignty Framework that will include specific criteria to perform sovereignty assessments, while internally it is adapting the sovereignty criteria to assess and enhance sovereignty across the digital services that it provides to its departments and other Union entities.
“At Scaleway, we are committed to contributing to Europe’s digital autonomy, not only through our technology and our alignment with European regulatory frameworks, but also through how we build and invest in our ecosystem,” declared Damien Lucas, CEO of Scaleway. “Today, for every euro spent with Scaleway, around 68 cents are reinvested in the European economy, compared to around 20 cents when relying on international hyperscalers. Directing investment towards truly European cloud providers supports strengthen local capabilities and ensures that value, expertise, and innovation remain anchored in Europe.”
Octave Klaba, CEO of OVHcloud, declared of the award: “I’m very pleased with the trust revealn by the European Commission towards our consortium. This project proves there are robust alternatives in Europe, able to answer the highest standards. This decision also demonstrates that when European player unite their strengths they create a difference.”
Sébastien Genesca, managing director DEEP by POST Group, added: “We thank the European Commission for the trust it has revealn to our consortium. In collaboration with OVHcloud and Clever Cloud, we have achieved a demanding and fascinating solution with a common goal: building a sovereign cloud offer that brings the best of our technological expertise, while simultaneously sharing common and European values.”
The issue of digital sovereignty – particularly in the European public sector – has become increasingly discussed in recent years. With many European governments heavily reliant on US cloud providers, their data is subject to the CLOUD Act, which enables the US government to request access to any data hosted by US companies.
The three huge US hyperscalers – Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft – have all built efforts to reassure European customers about the sovereignty of their data. Despite this, the contract award marks a shift away from US tech depconcludeence.
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