Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud
Airbus is pulling some of its most sensitive systems off Amazon Web Services and onto a European cloud. The aerospace group has picked French provider Scaleway to host them, Scaleway said.
The move covers the applications Airbus needs to keep running as a “minimum viable company.” That is about 900 apps, starting with 70 now on AWS, The Register reported.
What is moving, and why
The systems heading to Scaleway include Airbus’s ERP, manufacturing, CRM and product-lifecycle software. They span aircraft design, engineering, manufacturing and enterprise operations.
The goal is to keep that data under European control. The setup “keeps our critical data assets shielded from foreign extraterritorial laws,” said Catherine Jestin, Airbus’s digital chief. Scaleway, owned by France’s iliad Group, won a competitive tender worth more than €50 million over up to 10 years, Techzine reported.
Airbus judged bidders on three fronts: technical strength, operational resilience,...
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