Atos announced that the company expands its recently Atos OneCloud Sovereign Shield initiative by extending its existing partnership with OVHcloud, with new combined offerings and jointresearch and development. The two European cloud leaders willprovide a market-leading sovereign cloud solution for large French organizations. Both companies have an ambitious plan for the coming months and years, which builds on their previous commitment to create a trusted cloud solution for French organizations.

This combination maximizes Atos' global strategic initiative Atos OneCloud and its recently announced Atos OneCloud Sovereign Shield, which supports the digital and data sovereignty needs of governments and industries worldwide, and combines them together with OVHcloud's innovative public cloud solution based on sovereign European infrastructure. OVHcloud and Atos will set-up a Public Cloud solution to be rolled out in Atos' datacenters in France to offer a best-in-class 100% European cloud platform, leveraging OVHcloud Datacenter as-a-Service to enable IaaS and PaaS capabilities, combined with Atos bare metal, cybersecurity, and decarbonization solutions. Atos customers will get access to hybrid cloud configurations through combining OVHcloud Public Cloud with the Atos Digital Hybrid Cloud solution for Private Cloud.

The joined offering will allow customers to benefit from public cloud capabilities, fully sovereign cloud management services, complete regulatory compliance, and world-class cybersecurity protection.