OVHcloud

OVHcloud is Europe's largest independent cloud provider. Headquartered in Roubaix, France, it operates 33 data centres across three continents and serves more than 1.6 million customers in 140 countries. Founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba, the company has remained privately held through the Klaba family, giving it independence from US shareholder pressure and positioning it as a sovereignty-compliant option for European enterprises and government entities. It participates in the GAIA-X initiative and has been a consistent advocate in EU cloud sovereignty debates.

In April 2026, OVHcloud was named as part of the Post Telecom Luxembourg consortium — alongside CleverCloud — that won one of four slots in the European Commission's €180m, six-year sovereign cloud framework, achieving SEAL-3 Digital Resilience, the highest sovereignty tier. The framework represents the first pan-EU institutional sovereign cloud contract of its kind. OVHcloud has also benefited from the Commission's DMA cloud probes against AWS and Azure, which accused both companies of anticompetitive data portability and interoperability practices; remedies from those probes are expected to lower switching costs for enterprises moving to European alternatives.

European sovereign cloud spending is forecast to triple from roughly $7 billion in 2025 to $23 billion by 2027, a market OVHcloud is now positioned to serve through a reference EU contract. Its challenge is the managed-services gap with AWS and Azure: the SEAL-3 win demonstrates sovereignty credentials but not the breadth of enterprise services that the largest government and financial workloads demand.