https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cloud/european-cloud-sovereignty-google-cloud-thales

Google Cloud and French tech stalwart Thales have launched a joint venture which will see the latter create a new sovereign cloud for France. The partnership is the latest in a series of arrangements across the continent which have seen European tech companies team up with the US cloud hyperscalers, and it is hoped such arrangements could go some way to meeting Europe’s desire for “cloud sovereignty”.

Under the agreement, Thales will use Google Cloud’s technology to build the cloud platform, but none of its physical infrastructure. The joint venture will be run by Thales, and will offer cloud services to clients in the public and private sectors. This set-up, the companies say, meets the French government’s “trusted cloud” rules, a set of regulations for cloud computing companies launched last year to promote high standards of data protection.