OVHcloud

OVHcloud (legal entity OVH Groupe SAS, Roubaix, France) is the largest European hyperscaler alternative and the directory's reference choice for French and EU public-sector sovereign workloads. Founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba, the company is publicly listed on Euronext Paris and remains under founding-family control: as of 20 October 2025, Octave Klaba returned as combined Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer after Benjamin Revcolevschi's one-year tenure. The group reported €1.08B revenue for fiscal year 2025 (+9.3%) at a 40.4% adjusted-EBITDA margin, serves 1.6M customers, and operates 46 data centres across four continents — flagship customers include Société Générale, Louis Vuitton, Capgemini, and Sopra Steria. Compliance is the differentiator. OVHcloud carries ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO/IEC 27701:2019, SOC 1/2/3, PCI DSS 3.2 Level 1, and GDPR alignment as the baseline. On top of that it holds the French government's **ANSSI SecNumCloud 3.2** qualification (March 2025, applied to the Bare Metal Pod platform) — the most stringent French sovereign-cloud certification, designed to provide protection from the U.S. CLOUD Act and FISA Section 702 by guaranteeing that cloud operations are immune from non-EU jurisdiction. It also carries French **HDS** (healthcare data hosting), German **BSI C5** (cloud-security catalogue), Spanish **ENS**, UK G-Cloud public-sector framework, and HIPAA / HITECH for US healthcare workloads. The corporate position is explicit: "We do not sell, use or transfer your data; choose where to store your data and the jurisdiction that protects it." For procurement, this matters because OVHcloud is one of the four winners of the €180M April 2026 EU sovereign-cloud tender (alongside Scaleway, Clever Cloud, and STACKIT) — AWS was deliberately excluded. The Public Cloud product starts at roughly €5/month for small compute instances; first-time customers get US$200 in free credit. Data-centre regions across Frankfurt, Paris, London, Strasbourg, Roubaix, Gravelines, plus North America (Toronto, US), Asia-Pacific (Singapore, Sydney), and others — customer-elected. Network capacity is 100 Tbit/s globally. Best fit: any EU procurement-grade buyer needing a strict CLOUD-Act-clean hyperscaler alternative, regulated industries (healthcare, finance, public sector), and customers who want SecNumCloud-grade isolation for the most sensitive workloads.