Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push

Airbus just moved 70 critical apps — including their CRM — off AWS and onto a French cloud provider. Not for cost reasons. For control.

The short version: Airbus is migrating 900 applications, including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems, to Scaleway, a French infrastructure company. The driver is digital sovereignty — keeping sensitive business data under European jurisdiction and out of reach of foreign regulatory pressure.

That's an aerospace giant making a deliberate choice to own their stack rather than rent convenience from someone else's roadmap.

Here's what that signals for you: vendor dependency isn't just a technical problem — it's a business risk. When your CRM lives entirely inside someone else's platform, you're one policy change, one price hike, or one "sunset announcement" away from another forced migration. You've probably already been through that cycle once. Maybe twice.

The ops leaders who stop getting burned aren't the ones who find a better vendor. They're the ones who stop giving vendors that much control in the first place.

If Airbus can rethink who owns their critical systems, so can a mid-market ops team that's tired of asking a consultant for permission to change a field label.

Control over your data and workflows isn't a luxury feature — it's the whole point.

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Total of 900 applications including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems going to be kept 'under European control'