Europe’s biggest aerospace company Airbus wants to move critical systems away from AWS, Google and Microsoft; ‘fear’ this American law – The Times of India

Europe’s biggest aerospace company Airbus reportedly wants to move away from two of the biggest American technology companies — Google and Microsoft. According to a report in Register, Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud. The aerospace manufacturer uses products and services of Google and Microsoft. Airbus has consolidated its datacenter estate and uses services like Google Workspace. The company reportedly uses Microsoft Excel and software for finance and some miliary-classified documents that can’t be stored in the CloudAirbus is now reportedly looking to move key on-premises applications including ERP, manufacturing execution systems, CRM, and product lifecycle management (aircraft designs) to the cloud. “I need a sovereign cloud because part of the information is extremely sensitive from a national and European perspective,” Catherine Jestin, Airbus’ executive vice president of digital,…