France swaps Microsoft for Iliad’s Scaleway to repatriate health data hub

France has chosen domestic cloud provider Scaleway, a subsidiary of Iliad, to host the country’s Health Data Hub, replacing Microsoft Azure in a long-contested arrangement, Scaleway said on Thursday.

The decision fits into a broader shift as Europe seeks cloud sovereignty independent of U.S.-based Big Tech.

In Germany, the ‌state of ⁠Schleswig-Holstein is ⁠migrating 30,000 government workstations away from Microsoft products, while Denmark’s digital affairs ministry is switching to open-source LibreOffice following similar moves by the cities Copenhagen and Aarhus.