Airbus allontana i sistemi critici da AWS, Google e Microsoft citando preoccupazioni sulla sovranità dei dati
https://www.golem.de/news/digitale-souveraenitaet-airbus-bereitet-wechsel-zu-europaeischer-cloud-vor-2512-203479.html
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Airbus is preparing a €50 million tender (starting January 2026) to move critical enterprise applications – ERP, CRM, manufacturing systems, product lifecycle management – away from US cloud providers to a “sovereign European cloud.”
Catherine Jestin, Executive VP Digital at Airbus: “I need a sovereign cloud because some of the information is extremely sensitive from a national and European perspective.”
The article explicitly states: “US providers like Google, AWS and Microsoft are increasingly considered unsafe because they cannot guarantee that US authorities won’t gain access to European customer data.”
This comes the same week as:
* NATO declaring cloud sovereignty “existential” for European defense
* Germany’s largest IT association warning that cloud providers with US ties are unsafe
* A leaked German government report confirming US data access through CLOUD Act
When a major European aerospace and defense contractor is willing to spend €50M over 10 years to move away from US cloud providers, this isn’t just privacy advocacy anymore – it’s strategic business reality.
I built [AKCACHE.io](http://AKCACHE.io) (managed databases on Hetzner) specifically for this reason – genuine EU sovereignty, not just “EU region” marketing. The gap between AWS Frankfurt and actual EU-controlled infrastructure is becoming a strategic priority for European companies.
Lets GOOOO
Who are the European providers?
Well done!
It will be SAP. They are powerhouse ERP and they announced the EU cloud.
Finally!
After ICC judge was digitally destroyed by USA companies NO government and no serious private entity should use US sourced solutions.
Could be Telekom or stackIT as well.
Why was it there in the first place when data sovereignty was always been a concern?
M-icrosoft/M-eta
A-pple
G-oogle
A-mazon
About damn time.
Good for them. Finland has recently made moves to move all of our data to American cloud services, including election and health data. But don’t worry, they probably won’t leave Europe… unless the US government wants to take a peek.
I’m not surprised. In march I attended a software architecture conference. Data sovereignty was the top topic.
If someone had told me in 2015 that ten years later Americans would idolize Russia and consider it their best ally while thinking of Europe as its enemy, I would have called the ambulance to take them to the shrink…
The most important aspect of this is the knock-on effect on other (major and small) companies. Once the big ones like Airbus get going, others will follow, not just those with sensitive data.
Daddy is gonna mad!
>Airbus has already experienced how difficult it is to break away from US corporations with the switch from Microsoft Office to Google Workspace, which is still not complete after seven years .
If moving from one American cloud to another takes more than seven years, I cannot imagine how long it would take to move to a European one. And 50 million euros? That’s a drop in the bucket. [Airbus and Microsoft dropped half of that on a small drone company 8 years ago](https://fortune.com/2017/02/23/microsoft-airbus-airmap-funding/).
EDIT: Btw, here is the [original article](https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/19/airbus_sovereign_cloud/). Here’s the interesting bit:
> Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider.
This means that Airbus only expects a 20% chance of finding a European cloud firm that can supply 80% of what they need. Those a pretty poor odds.
About time…
American billionaires have been basically all-in on Trump’s aggressive insanity. Very short sighted of them, given the amount of money they stand to lose as America alienates its allies around the world.
I am really happy about that, and I hope many other European companies will follow the same path.