As part of a broader European push to reduce strategic dependency on US cloud and software providers, France has chosen Scaleway to host the national Health Data Hub, replacing Microsoft Azure. Scaleway is a subsidiary of Iliad, a French telecommunications group.
The public institution’s database contains the health information of millions of French citizens. It was intended to replicate the entire French health data system (SNDS), managed by the national health insurance, and to serve as a digital resource for researchers seeking large-scale, long-term data.
