Airbus migrates 900 apps to Scaleway
Airbus is migrating 900 applications, starting with 70 critical systems, from AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway to secure digital sovereignty. While the move marks a major shift, challenges remain as Airbus's 18,000 global suppliers remain heavily reliant on US platforms like Microsoft and Google.
European digital sovereignty is transitioning from regulatory virtue-signaling to an active corporate strategy, but the path to full autonomy remains blocked by entrenched American hegemony in productivity software and AI.
* Corporate migration of critical infrastructure (ERP, CRM) to local EU providers like Scaleway proves that digital sovereignty is a serious, commercial priority rather than a political talking point.
* The migration highlights a massive gap in supply chain security, as Airbus's 18,000 suppliers remain locked into Microsoft and Google ecosystems, meaning sensitive supplier data will continue to live on US platforms.
* Europe desperately needs to foster a cooperative, open-source-based enterprise software market to offer viable, risk-mitigated alternatives to US productivity suites and AI models.
* Airbus's localized AI strategy demonstrates that not every enterprise needs or wants Cloud-based frontier models, prioritizing on-premises execution for knowledge extraction and support chatbots.
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