--- title: Airbus Makes Protection from Extraterritorial Law a... description: Airbus selected French cloud provider Scaleway as its sovereign cloud partner after a competitive tender that formally scored protection against non-European... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/airbus-makes-protection-from-extraterritorial-law-a-scored-criterion-in-its-cloud-tender-wpfts1ji4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Airbus Makes Protection from Extraterritorial Law a Scored Criterion in Its Cloud Tender | daily.dev og:description: Airbus selected French cloud provider Scaleway as its sovereign cloud partner after a competitive tender that formally scored protection against non-European... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/airbus-makes-protection-from-extraterritorial-law-a-scored-criterion-in-its-cloud-tender-wpfts1ji4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WPFTS1Ji4.png og:image:alt: Airbus Makes Protection from Extraterritorial Law a Scored Criterion in Its Cloud Tender og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Airbus Makes Protection from Extraterritorial Law a Scored Criterion in Its Cloud Tender **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Airbus selected French cloud provider Scaleway as its sovereign cloud partner after a competitive tender that formally scored protection against non-European extraterritorial legislation — specifically the US CLOUD Act — alongside technical and operational criteria. The deal is framed as a complement to Airbus' existing multi-cloud setup, not a full exit from hyperscalers, with jurisdictionally sensitive workloads routed to the sovereign tier. Practitioners note the pattern is spreading beyond large enterprises to affect small US SaaS vendors losing European customers, and compliance experts warn that sovereignty claims only become meaningful when decomposed into verifiable controls such as data location, encryption key governance, and sub-processor oversight. Scaleway's selection follows its April appointment under the EU Commission's €180M Cloud III framework and its acquisition of HPC provider Qarnot. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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