Airbus Migrating 70 Critical Apps From AWS to France's Scaleway

Migration Details

Airbus is moving 70 critical applications from AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway as part of a broader digital sovereignty push to keep sensitive data "under European control." Eventually, the migration will cover 900 applications, including ERP, CRM, manufacturing execution, and product lifecycle management systems.

Airbus says it will, however, continue using U.S. providers for less sensitive workloads. "We do not intend to move away from all non European solutions; we balance our choices based on the criticality of the data," the company said.

Airbus Statement

Catherine Jestin, head of digital at Airbus, told us on Thursday: "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."

"The objective is to host Airbus's most critical applications (those required for the Minimum Viable Company). This represents 900 applications and we will start with 70 of them today hosted on AWS."

Applications being sent to Scaleway include ERP, manufacturing execution systems, CRM, and product lifecycle management.

Finding a cloud provider to host its most sensitive applications for defense and industrial workloads was not a certainty when the process began, Airbus told us last year, because European cloud providers do not have the scale of their US rivals.

Continued Use of AWS

Jestin said Airbus will continue to work with AWS. Skywise, a platform that aggregates and analyzes aviation data, and Case Management Assistant for customers' technical queries will continue to be hosted by AWS.

In a statement, she said: "By integrating a trusted, high performance, cloud environment that keeps our critical data assets shielded from foreign extraterritorial laws, we are ensuring that our digital infrastructure keeps pace with our aerospace innovation, while maintaining control and resilience of our industrial operations."

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Applications being sent to Scaleway include ERP, manufacturing execution systems, CRM, and product lifecycle management.

Finding a cloud provider to host its most sensitive applications for defense and industrial workloads was not a certainty when the process began, Airbus told us last year, because European cloud providers do not have the scale of their US rivals.

Jestin said Airbus will continue to work with AWS. Skywise, a platform that aggregates and analyzes aviation data, and Case Management Assistant for customers' technical queries will continue to be hosted by AWS.

In a statement, she said: "By integrating a trusted, high performance, cloud environment that keeps our critical data assets shielded from foreign extraterritorial laws, we are ensuring that our digital infrastructure keeps pace with our aerospace innovation, while maintaining control and resilience of our industrial operations."

Community Discussion

The great fragmentation is happening (Score:2)

It's already been going on in the gaming industry for a while. Lots of smaller companies serving their growing niches, and fewer bigger ones capturing the larger markets. It's about time it extends to the larger "software" industry as well. "Software" is a loose term these days, as it's neither scoring low on Moh's scale nor is it a tangible commodity.

On premise (Score:2)

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Given the size of Airbus, and given documented past NSA spying [bbc.co.uk], I would expect them to use on-premise installations for critical applications. This move is not about the posibility of spying. Goverments all over are trying to spy on airbus. But spying is hard. This is more about a piece of legislation in the USoA called the "Cloud Act". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] By this, a judge can order an USoAn company to hand over data, even if the data belongs to an non-USoAn company or person, the data is located/stored in a datacenter outside of the USoA, and the Datacenter belongs to a local subsidiary of the USoAn company... This removes pretty much a War's coming.

If you think the US is going to fail gracefully, I have a bridge to sell you. Trump - and his successors - don't care if they're destroying the world as long as they personally feel they get some kind of immediate personal advantage every step of the way. At some point, the US is going to exploit Amazon, Google, Meta, or Microsoft to cause another country economic pain... and the government won't care that doing so will mean everyone starts disconnecting from the US' newly displayed threat and ultimately hurt