France moves national health data from Microsoft Azure to French cloud provider Scaleway
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Alexandra Leistner
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France is moving its national Health Data Hub from Microsoft Azure to Scaleway, a French cloud provider owned by Iliad, as part of a broader European push to reduce dependency on US cloud services. The database contains health information of millions of French citizens and serves as a digital resource for researchers. The move follows several years of controversy over hosting sensitive health data with a US-based provider.
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bskyFrance moves national health data from Microsoft Azure to French cloud provider Scalewayeuronews.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledFrance 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.
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