European aerospace giant Airbus is pulling nearly 900 critical software applications off Amazon Web Services to escape foreign data surveillance laws.
In this clip from the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth breaks down Airbus’s major migration to French cloud provider Scaleway. Driven by growing European privacy concerns around laws like the U.S. CLOUD Act, the company plans to move core manufacturing and operational software to domestic servers to keep sensitive defense data protected.
This shift also integrates directly with French startup Mistral AI while keeping strategic aerospace innovations safely under European jurisdiction. While less sensitive workloads will remain on AWS, the move signals a massive industry-wide push toward digital sovereignty.
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