S3NS files its SecNumCloud qualification application

2024-07-15 · Publisher : S3NS (Thales) · Domain : Cloud & DevOps

ANSSI accepts the SecNumCloud qualification application of S3NS, the Thales company that operates Google Cloud technology (PREMI3NS offer). Qualification is targeted for summer 2025, with rollout to some 30 early adopters from December 2024.

### Background On 15 July 2024, S3NS announces that ANSSI has accepted its **SecNumCloud** qualification application, at the first milestone (J0) of the process. S3NS, created in October 2021 by Thales with Google Cloud technology, develops the **PREMI3NS** offer, a "trusted cloud" administered by S3NS and hosted in France. ### Key facts - SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification targeted for summer 2025. - Rollout to early adopters from December 2024: about thirty, including Matmut, AGPM, Club Med, Thales, Birdz (a Veolia subsidiary) and B Connect. - Three data centers in the Paris region, with physical and logical controls. - Google Cloud updates are reviewed continuously before going into production. - Announced use cases: lift-and-shift, application modernization, cloud-native development and first AI uses. - The SecNumCloud qualification process has four milestones (J0 to J3); acceptance of the application corresponds to the first. - S3NS says it has kept its commitments since its creation in October 2021, according to CEO Cyprien Falque. ### Why it matters S3NS illustrates the second French model of trusted cloud: hyperscaler technology licensed to an operator under European control, competing with the "fully European cloud" route of OVHcloud or Outscale. For customers the issue is timing: the qualification targeted for summer 2025 was only obtained in December 2025. For a public-sector CIO or an operator of vital importance, this first milestone makes the timeline of a Google Cloud-based offer legible, before any qualification. ### Takeaway The application opens a seventeen-month path that ends with the December 2025 qualification.

Tags : SecNumCloud, Cloud souverain, Google Cloud, Europe, Souveraineté