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French cloud providers

Sovereign French cloud solutions — hosting, infrastructure and storage in France, compared on data residency, ownership, CLOUD Act exposure, sub-processors and qualifications such as SecNumCloud.

In short

Leading French cloud providers hosted in France are OVHcloud, Scaleway and Clever Cloud for infrastructure, and Oodrive, Leviia and Wimi for storage and collaboration — all EU-owned, run in French data centres, and checked for GDPR alignment, SecNumCloud and CLOUD Act exposure. Sovereignty is not about location alone: ownership and sub-processors determine whether a provider is genuinely beyond the reach of the US CLOUD Act.

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A French cloud solution, as listed here, is an infrastructure, hosting or storage company whose operating entity is incorporated and headquartered in France and runs its primary infrastructure in French data centres. This page brings together two layers buyers often evaluate together: sovereign infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS such as OVHcloud, Scaleway and Clever Cloud) and GDPR-compliant storage and collaboration (Oodrive, Leviia, Wimi). Every listing is benchmarked on the criteria that actually matter — hosting region, ownership signal, CLOUD Act exposure, sub-processor chain and recognised qualifications — with each figure sourced to the provider's public documentation and re-verified quarterly.

Why it matters

The easy version of "French cloud" — a US hyperscaler's Paris region — does not answer the question most procurement teams are actually asking. Under the US CLOUD Act, data held by a company subject to US jurisdiction can be reached regardless of where the servers physically sit. A "France region" changes the data's location; it does not change the operator's legal exposure.

This is exactly the problem French sovereignty solves by evidence rather than slogan. A genuinely French provider — incorporated in France, French-controlled, with no US sub-processors in the data path — has a structurally weaker exposure profile, and ANSSI's SecNumCloud qualification attests this immunity to extraterritorial law explicitly. OVHcloud and Scaleway hold it and are among the four winners of the €180M EU Cloud III framework; their CLOUD Act exposure is recorded in the directory as "None", with hosting in France. But "genuinely French" is a chain of facts, not a flag: the operating entity, its owners and its sub-processors. We record each link separately.

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		Cert.	Pricing	Signals	Open
Clever Cloud French sovereign PaaS/IaaS: deploy apps and managed databases on EU infrastructure, billed per second.	PARIS · FR France	ISO/IEC 27001 HDS	Paid €4.8 /mo	Public DPA Sub-processors Open source	→
Leviia French sovereign cloud storage and Nextcloud-based drive, hosted only in France, ISO 27001 and HDS certified.	ROUBAIX · FR France	ISO/IEC 27001 HDS	Paid €2.4 /mo	Public DPA Sub-processors Open source	→
Oodrive French SecNumCloud-qualified secure file sharing, collaboration and e-signature, hosted entirely in France beyond CLOUD Act reach.	PARIS · FR France	SecNumCloud HDS +1 more	Paid	Public DPA Sub-processors Open source	→
OVHcloud French sovereign cloud (OVH Groupe, Roubaix, 1999), ANSSI SecNumCloud 3.2-qualified Bare Metal Pod; 46 DCs, public on Euronext Paris.	ROUBAIX · FR France	ISO/IEC 27001 SecNumCloud +2 more	Paid €5 /mo	Public DPA Sub-processors Open source	→
Scaleway French sovereign cloud (Iliad-owned, Xavier Niel), ANSSI SecNumCloud + HDS + ISO 27001; winner of €180M EU Cloud III tender.	PARIS · FR France	ISO/IEC 27001 SecNumCloud	Paid €2 /mo	Public DPA Sub-processors Open source	→
Wimi French sovereign teamwork suite with built-in Wimi Drive storage, hosted in France with no data leaving the EU.	FR France	ISO/IEC 27001 HDS	Freemium €3 /mo	Public DPA Sub-processors Open source	→

How to choose

Match the provider to your binding constraint. If you need raw infrastructure (IaaS), Scaleway starts at about €2/month and OVHcloud at about €5/month, both SecNumCloud-qualified for the most sensitive workloads; if you deploy applications, Clever Cloud's PaaS layer avoids managing infrastructure while staying in French regions. If SecNumCloud is written into your tender, filter to it directly — OVHcloud, Scaleway and Oodrive carry the qualification. If you need sovereign storage or collaboration, Oodrive targets regulated organisations, while Leviia and Wimi suit individuals and SMBs; check the sub-processor list closely, because that is where US exposure most often re-enters. Sort the table above by CLOUD Act exposure, hosting region or ownership, then open each profile to confirm the chain against your own impact assessment. For the broader EU-wide shortlist, see European cloud providers.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is the best French cloud provider?

It depends on your binding constraint. For raw infrastructure, Scaleway starts at about €2/month and OVHcloud at about €5/month; both hold the SecNumCloud qualification and are among the winners of the €180M EU Cloud III framework. Clever Cloud adds a French PaaS layer for deploying applications without managing infrastructure. For sovereign storage and collaboration, Oodrive (SecNumCloud-qualified) targets regulated organisations, while Leviia and Wimi suit SMBs. Filter the table by certification, ownership or CLOUD Act exposure to narrow it down.

What is the SecNumCloud qualification?

SecNumCloud is the trusted-cloud qualification issued by France's ANSSI (the national cybersecurity agency). It imposes strict security requirements and, crucially, immunity from non-EU extraterritorial laws such as the US CLOUD Act and FISA: a SecNumCloud-qualified service must be operated by a European entity, hosted in Europe, and legally beyond the reach of US demands. On this page, OVHcloud, Scaleway and Oodrive carry the qualification; the comparison table lets you filter to it directly.

Are French cloud providers beyond the US CLOUD Act?

Not automatically, but this is where French sovereignty stands out. The CLOUD Act can reach data held by a company subject to US jurisdiction regardless of where the servers sit. A provider incorporated and controlled in France, with no US sub-processors in the data path, therefore has a much weaker exposure profile — and a SecNumCloud qualification guarantees this explicitly. The CLOUD Act exposure of OVHcloud, Scaleway and Clever Cloud is recorded in the directory as 'None'.

What is a French alternative to Google Drive or Dropbox?

For file storage and sharing hosted in France, Leviia offers a Nextcloud-based drive and S3-compatible object storage, Oodrive targets regulated organisations with a SecNumCloud qualification, and Wimi pairs a drive with a collaboration suite. All three host data in France and keep data and backups within the EU. Check each provider's sub-processor list: some 'French' offers re-introduce exposure through a US CDN or storage layer — something we flag on every listing.

What does sovereign cloud really mean?

A sovereign cloud is one that stays outside non-EU jurisdiction across the whole chain: a European operating entity, hosting in Europe, and no sub-processor subject to extraterritorial law in the data path. That is a higher bar than simply 'hosted in France': ownership and sub-processors matter as much as location. ANSSI's SecNumCloud qualification is the French reference that attests this immunity; we record ownership, hosting, sub-processors and certifications separately so sovereignty is evidence-based, not assumed.

Methodology

How we verified every listing here.

For each product we read the public DPA, sub-processors document, hosting region declaration, certifications, and corporate ownership records. Each is timestamped. Signals are editorial, re-verified quarterly. We never accept self-attestation.

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