Airbus Migrating 70 Critical Apps From AWS to France's Scaleway (theregister.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/07/21/2050242/airbus-migrating-70-critical-apps-from-aws-to-frances-scaleway
- Source link: https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/07/16/airbus-migrating-70-critical-apps-from-aws-to-frances-scaleway-amid-digital-sovereignty-push/5272373
> 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."
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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.
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> 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."
[1] https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/07/16/airbus-migrating-70-critical-apps-from-aws-to-frances-scaleway-amid-digital-sovereignty-push/5272373
On premise (Score:4, Interesting)
Given the size of Airbus, and given documented past [1]NSA spying [bbc.co.uk], I would expect them to use on-premise installations for critical applications.
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/820758.stm
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There's no France spies. No, siree..
Re:On premise (Score:5, Informative)
> Given the size of Airbus, and given documented past [1]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".
[2]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 all the hard work required for "spying". I'd rather make the sppoks "sweat it", like in the old days. Trying to hack into my software, or my cloud provider's clud software, or trying to bribe a worker, or trying to plant an asset inside the company, while trying to evade all the monitoring and controls put in place to prevent all those scenarios... Much more dificult than convincing a judge (that oftentimes is friendly) to emit a subpoena, with a gag order to boot.
ScaleWay is the second largest Cloud provider in France, so good luck for a judge in the USoA making a French company to give info belonging to AirBus.
Many companies in Europe are going this route.
As for on-prem vs. on-cloud, you need to put stuff where it makes more sense. If the Airbus instances in ScaleAway are hacked, it would be a devastating blow for ScaleAway. Their whole raison d'etre is to have cloud workloads. Meanwhile, the core of Airbus' business is doing "aerospace stuff". IT is just a means to an end. Probably the Scaleway guys are more motivated and have more practice to keep EVERYTHING (including Airbus' workloads) secure than the internal IT of airbus is. So, workloads that you need to keep internal, you keep internal, and workloads were it makes more sense to move to public cloud, you move to public cloud.
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/820758.stm
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
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Partly true.
Completely correct about court decisions coupled with legislation mean that the US asserts data sovereignty but will not honor it.
But Europe only grumbled about that until the US selected a geriatric grifter for executive and started providing object lessons in why that wasn't just a theoretic risk.
Honestly, so far this is going easier than Europe could have hoped. I'm sure Piggie will notice at some point and start running his yap and throwing around more tariffs, providing more demonstratio
War's coming. (Score:4, Interesting)
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 the US more than anybody else.
There's a reason Canada and multiple EU nations are seriously pursuing 'sovereign clouds'. They're anticipating an attack and trying to mitigate the risk.
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The obvious way out of this, the bad timeline is just don't vote for Trump's successors and that means any and all Republicans.
I know that's apparently asking a lot from folks but yes, that means voting for the Democrats, not voting third party, not staying home, it means voting down the ballot D and doing it for the next 5 cycles. You don't have to tell anyone, just swallow your pride and do it. Give up thinking "Republicans good for economy" because that is solely a media narrative and hasn't been true
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You seriously think the will of the voters will be obeyed in future presidential elections? The GOP is working furiously to prevent that. If you have any doubt, see this week's presidential address.
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That's one way to read the situation. Another is: he's laying the groundwork to justify taking action to intimidate and suppress voters.
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Trump has been telling his voters the elections are rigged since 2016 and they still always, always go out and goddamned vote for the guy anyways. ALso at the end of the day they are incompetent and it's almost August, clock is ticking and if that address is what they have it isn't quite working.
Yeah they'll be some ICE intimidation at polling places I bet because that's the best they'll muster and the admin couldn't even invade Minneapolis much les Tehran, they got pushed out by wine moms.
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The underlying problem, surely, is not so much the current leadership, but the fact that a good half the US population thought he would make a good president. They thought it at the start, when his reputation was already known, and they have thought it since then, through all he has done.
I don't think calling them disgruntled is a sufficient excuse. That leaves either an intellectual or a moral deficiency.
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Half of the population likes the message he feeds them that all their problems in life are the fault of somebody else, preferably somebody who doesn’t look like them. An analysis of whether he is capable of governing a nation never entered into their voting decisions.
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> Half of the population likes the message he feeds them that all their problems in life are the fault of somebody else, preferably somebody who doesn’t look like them. An analysis of whether he is capable of governing a nation never entered into their voting decisions.
Be that as it may, I think the concern still stands. You might expect a small percentage of any populus to be so cavalier with their vote, but the fact that it is half the population in the US indicates some sort of serious deficiency.
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> That leaves either an intellectual or a moral deficiency.
From observable evidence, I would suspect it is both in most cases.
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Moral or intellectual for me it boils down to "it's the media environment stupid". Conservatives have actually controlled the media narrative for 20-30 years and have convinced the country they don't. The "liberal media" is as much responsible for Trump's rise with these people as Fox News is, particularly with Trump, they all fell for the "TDS" canard.
That said as we saw in 2020 that only goes so far, and for a recent example you see those gains he made with hispanic and minority voters evaporate becaus
American exports (Score:2)
I wonder what the effect of Trump has been on American exports in general. Yale Budget Lab suggests a reduction in GDP of 0.4% - a drag on the domestic economy from tariffs alone. But I suspect there are aspects of the Trump administration other than its use of tariffs which encourage consumers in other countries to steer away from US goods.
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I don't think many people appreciate how we've sullied our reputation across the globe, irrevocably in some ways. And before anyone gets all cynical with some "but America bad" this admin is crossing a line, lot's of lines and doing it recklessly. You all know deep down our position in the alternate world with Harris as President is a lot better than here in 2026, she would have been better, everyones fragile little souls will have to deal with that reality eventually.
Re:American exports (Score:4, Insightful)
And it's sullied irrevocably. For the sake of argument, let's say the GOP loses control of the house and the presidency in the next couple of years. What difference would that make? If you're Canada, would you trust the US ever again? The US will always be just a couple of years away from potentially electing another Trump-like president.
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It's a start at least and at least a generic Democrat compared to Republicans will be better suited to lead the country through these new challenges, particularly if the Democrats can enact some structural changes that will severely lessen the chance for another Trump like as well as punishing all the lawbreaking taking place.
Biden's big mistake was Garland who did not take those first steps nearly fast enough which would have been getting the ball rolling on the indictments of Trump and his cronies. The i
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I didn't say jack shit about Harris 2028. Just saying right now she would have been better than. Your ego and pride can't override reality.
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There are grassroots boycotts for sure. Canadian tourism to the USA is way down, costing [1]an estimated 300,000 American jobs. [theglobeandmail.com]. Canada has more-or-less [2]stopped buying US alcohol [www.cbc.ca].
And when I and most people I know buy groceries, we avoid anything coming from the USA, even if the alternatives are a little more expensive. Canadians aren't only doing this because of tariffs; we're also fucking furious at Trump's threats to our sovereignty and insults to our country.
And the thing is, once we get used to stay
[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1f56a6fa6df1c99805e9cf90cc849db6831fef1f921fc93d89b67bcf743767dc/NW5YCMJEH5BF7MXAUHG3E7CGKA/
[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/american-spirit-exports-canada-plummeted-second-quarter-2025-9.6933236
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Mebby GDP doesn't measure what you think it does. When foreign products are excluded from American markets more production of American products will occur ... or needless products will not be used or made. Good for USA workers and screws pure-play USA GLOBALIST investor class in azzwhole.
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Yes, a loss of 300,000 jobs is certainly good for USA workers, Einstein.
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> Mebby GDP doesn't measure what you think it does. When foreign products are excluded from American markets more production of American products will occur ... or needless products will not be used or made. Good for USA workers and screws pure-play USA GLOBALIST investor class in azzwhole.
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> The strong do as they will. The weak do as they must. 5-th Century BC Athenian commons vs Militians
Your sig. is a good summary of the change in moral direction in the US.
A sort of swing from New back to Old Testament.
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.
That's not what's happening here (Score:2)
Europe can no longer trust America and by extension American companies. We had a choice between a moderately competent woman and a convicted felon pedophile and we picked the convicted felon pedophile. In addition to the pedophile accepting 2 billion dollars in bribes for pardons and a questionable jet from a corrupt government he also threatened to invade Greenland and Canada and has completely fucked up the global economy by uselessly attacking Iran.
So Europe is disentangling itself from America. Whic