3DS Outscale
French sovereign cloud from Dassault Systèmes, SecNumCloud 3.2 qualified and HDS certified, with sovereign generative AI via Mistral AI.
About
OUTSCALE (a Dassault Systèmes brand) is France's reference sovereign cloud provider for sensitive and regulated sectors. Founded in 2010 in Saint-Cloud, the company obtained ANSSI SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification in 2023 — the highest level of digital sovereignty in France and Europe — alongside HDS certification for health data.
OUTSCALE targets OIVs (operators of vital importance), OSEs (essential service operators), public administrations, healthcare institutions, and enterprises in finance and industry.
Services
- Compute: virtual instances (CPU, memory), flexible GPU (attachable/detachable for AI and HPC), pre-configured OMI images
- Kubernetes: OUTSCALE Kubernetes as a Service (OKS), available on the SecNumCloud 3.2 sovereign cloud (Satelliz acquisition, 2024)
- Object storage: OUTSCALE Object Storage (OOS), S3-compatible
- Block storage: Block Storage Unit (BSU), snapshots
- Databases: managed services on sovereign infrastructure
- IAM: Elastic Identity Management (EIM) — granular per-user IAM policies
- Networking: VPC, Elastic IP, DirectLink (dedicated private connectivity), IPsec VPN, Load Balancing
- Sovereign generative AI: Mistral AI LLMs (Small, Medium, Codestral, Ministral 8b, Mistral Embed, Voxtral) hosted on SecNumCloud 3.2 + AI Studio + Le Chat Enterprise
- Low-code / BPM: Business Process (Iterop acquisition, 2024) — business process management
Certifications
| Certification | Status |
|---|---|
| SecNumCloud 3.2 (ANSSI) | ✅ Qualified — since 2023 (first qualification: 2019) |
| HDS (Health Data Hosting) | ✅ Certified — since 2019 |
| ISO 27001 / 27017 / 27018 | ✅ Certified — since 2014 |
| SOC 2 Type 2 | ✅ Attested (Deloitte audit) |
| TISAX | ✅ Certified (automotive sector) |
| CISPE | ✅ Member — data stored exclusively in the EEA |
Ecosystem & partnerships
OUTSCALE is the technical foundation for NumSpot, the cloud platform dedicated to public and regulated sectors, co-founded with Banque des Territoires, Docaposte, and Bouygues Télécom. The partnership with Mistral AI (Dassault Systèmes group) positions OUTSCALE as the first SecNumCloud-qualified sovereign generative AI provider.
Services Offered
Services are mapped to unified taxonomy categories for easy comparison across providers.
- Compute
- Kubernetes
- Object Storage
- Database
- Iam
Certifications & Compliance
Verified certifications and compliance attestations.
Geographic Coverage
Datacenter locations for data residency and latency considerations.
- Paris
- Île-de-France