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French public cloud provider with 44 owned data centers across 4 continents from Roubaix; SecNumCloud-qualified sovereign tiers.

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About OVHcloud

OVH Groupe S.A., trading as OVHcloud, is a French public cloud provider founded in November 1999 by Octave Klaba in Roubaix, France. The group operates over 500,000 servers across 44 owned data centers on four continents, runs its own fibre backbone, designs its own water-cooled servers, and self-hosts its authoritative DNS, CDN and corporate email -- a vertically integrated stack distinct from US hyperscaler resellers.

OVHcloud has been listed on Euronext Paris (ticker OVH) since October 2021 and entered the SBF120 index in December 2021. Founder Octave Klaba is Chairman; Benjamin Revcolevschi became CEO on 23 October 2024. The Klaba family holds majority voting control (~68% pre-buyback October 2024, rising to up to ~81% after the January 2025 share cancellation), amplified by French double-voting rights. FY2025 revenue was EUR 1,084.6 million (+9.3% LFL) with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 40.4%. OVHcloud is a CISPE code-of-conduct signatory, a GAIA-X consortium member, and was selected in March 2026 as a subcontractor for the European Central Bank digital euro project.

Features

  • 44 owned data centres on 4 continents (FR / DE / PL / UK / CA / US / SG / AU / IN) running 500,000+ servers
  • Vertically integrated: own servers, own fibre backbone, water cooling, own ASN (AS16276), self-hosted DNS / CDN / corporate mail
  • SecNumCloud 3.2 (ANSSI): Private Cloud renewed Jan 2024 (Roubaix / Gravelines / Strasbourg); Bare Metal Pod qualified Mar 2025
  • Sovereignty stance: 'none of [the customer's] data will be accessible, transferred or processed outside of the European Union' for SecNumCloud
  • CISPE signatory (EC-approved code of conduct); GAIA-X consortium leader in 6 projects incl. Marispace-X (16-member maritime data)
  • Mar 2026 selected as ECB digital-euro subcontractor to Senacor Technologies for the 'Secure Exchange of Payment Information' framework
  • Certifications: SecNumCloud 3.2, ISO 27001/27017/27018/27701/50001, HDS, PCI DSS, SOC 1/2, BSI C5, CSA STAR, NF 525, ENISA EUCS, TISAX
  • Subprocessor list (v3.0, Oct 2025) names only OVH group affiliates (DE / ES / FR / IT / IE / PL / PT / NL / CA); UK carve-out excludes SecNumCloud
  • Public Cloud (compute / k8s / S3 / DBaaS / Data Platform); Bare Metal; Hosted Private Cloud (VMware / SAP HANA / Nutanix); Web Hosting + domains
  • AI Endpoints (40+ open models); Bare Metal Pod (SecNumCloud sovereign tier); Veeam Backup; Anti-DDoS; Telco Cloud

Sovereignty Scorecard

Procurement-grade signals on data sovereignty, ownership, and EU residency.

The SHIELD framework

We score every European vendor against six sovereignty dimensions captured in the SHIELD acronym. Each card below maps to one letter — read them as a checklist when comparing providers.

S
Subprocessors

The third parties that touch customer data — payment processors, KYC vendors, support chatbots, analytics.

H
Headquarters & ownership

Where the legal entity sits, who controls it, and which subsidiaries operate under the same group.

I
Infrastructure & residency

Where customer data is physically stored, who runs the hosting stack, which CDN sits in front.

E
Exposure

Whether the vendor or its subprocessors fall under the US CLOUD Act or other extraterritorial reach.

L
Legal documents

Public terms, privacy policy, DPA, subprocessor list, impressum, and security or trust pages.

D
Diligence

Independent audits and certifications (ISO 27001, BSI C5, TISAX, SOC 2) plus open-source transparency.

Ownership

Publicly traded

European majority control

OVH Groupe S.A. (RCS Lille Metropole 537 407 926) is a French Societe Anonyme listed on Euronext Paris (ticker OVH) since October 2021, SBF120 component since December 2021. Klaba family controls majority voting: held ~68% pre-buyback October 2024; the EUR 350 million share buyback completed January 2025 lifts family control to up to ~81% post-cancellation. Free float ~17%; employees ~1.7%. French double-voting rights amplify family control versus economic stake. Octave Klaba is Chairman of the Board (11 directors, 5 independent, 2 employee representatives, 1 censor); Benjamin Revcolevschi has been CEO since 23 October 2024, succeeding Michel Paulin. Share capital EUR 151,651,536 after the January 2025 capital reduction. European-control 'majority' reflects the Klaba family majority, French headquarters and decision-making in Roubaix, and the EU-only group governance principle.

Headquarters

🇫🇷 Roubaix, France

OVH Groupe S.A.

Subsidiaries
  • OVH SAS 🇫🇷 FranceFrench operating subsidiary of OVH Groupe S.A.; the legacy 1999 operating entity that runs Public Cloud, Bare Metal and Web Hosting workloads from the Roubaix/Gravelines/Strasbourg data centers. Named in the canonical subprocessor PDF as part of the intra-group processor list.
  • OVH US LLC 🇺🇸 United StatesDelaware/Virginia LLC operating the two US data centers HIL1 (Hillsboro, Oregon) and VIN1 (Vint Hill, Virginia); ~200 employees; principal address 11950 Democracy Drive Suite 300, Reston, VA 20190. Contracting entity for US customers; this is the US-jurisdictional foothold that produces the partial-via-subsidiaries CLOUD Act exposure for non-SecNumCloud workloads.
  • OVH Limited 🇬🇧 United KingdomUK operating entity. The canonical subprocessor PDF carves it out from SecNumCloud and Trusted Cloud workloads -- 'All Services, regardless of their location, except SecNumCloud and Trusted Cloud' -- so SecNumCloud-qualified deployments do not touch OVH Limited.
  • OVH GmbH 🇩🇪 GermanyGerman operating entity for the Limburg (Hesse) data center and the German customer base; named in the intra-group subprocessor list.
  • OVH Hebergement Inc. CanadaCanadian operating entity for the Beauharnois (Quebec) data center; named in the intra-group subprocessor list.
  • gridscale GmbH 🇩🇪 GermanyGerman hyperconverged / edge cloud provider acquired by OVHcloud on 4 September 2023; broadens the German cloud footprint with managed-Kubernetes / hyperconverged Compute and Storage products.
Data residency
FR
DE
PL
GB
CA
US
SG
AU
IN

Region selectable

Customer-selectable per deploy via the Data Center Designer. OVHcloud's verbatim position: 'The customer's data is always stored in the data centers of their choice. OVHcloud does not move customer data to other locations without the customer's consent.' SecNumCloud 3.2-qualified products (Private Cloud VMware, Bare Metal Pod) are restricted to the Roubaix / Gravelines / Strasbourg trio in France; ANSSI qualification guarantees that 'none of [the customer's] data will be accessible, transferred or processed outside of the European Union' for these workloads.

Hosting infrastructure

Website: Self-hosted CDN on OVH-owned data centers (x-cdn-pop: rbx, x-toujours-debout-location: GRA observed in HTTP headers); origin in OVH-owned RIPE address space (198.27.92.0/24 prefix, AS16276)

Application: OVHcloud-owned, OVHcloud-designed water-cooled servers in 44 owned data centers; OVHcloud-operated fibre backbone; no US hyperscaler infrastructure in the path

Email: Self-hosted on OVH mail infrastructure (mx0.mail.ovh.net through mx3.mail.ovh.net for ovhcloud.com inbound) -- strong sovereignty signal; no Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 dependency for corporate email

CDN: Self-hosted (x-cdn-pop: rbx, x-toujours-debout-location: GRA HTTP headers); no Cloudflare, Fastly or Akamai in front of the marketing site

Subprocessors
NameCountryPurpose
OVH SAS🇫🇷 FranceIntra-group French operating processor for Public Cloud, Bare Metal and Web Hosting workloads
OVH GmbH🇩🇪 GermanyIntra-group German operating processor
OVH Hispano🇪🇸 SpainIntra-group Spanish operating processor
OVH SRL🇮🇹 ItalyIntra-group Italian operating processor
OVH Hosting Limited🇮🇪 IrelandIntra-group Irish operating processor
OVH BV🇳🇱 NetherlandsIntra-group Dutch operating processor
OVH Sp. z o.o.🇵🇱 PolandIntra-group Polish operating processor
OVH Hosting Sistemas Informaticos Unipessoal🇵🇹 PortugalIntra-group Portuguese operating processor

Subprocessor list

Certifications
secnumcloud
Certified

SecNumCloud 3.2 (ANSSI) -- Private Cloud (VMware on OVHcloud) covering Roubaix / Gravelines / Strasbourg, renewed January 2024; Bare Metal Pod qualified 31 March 2025. Public Cloud SecNumCloud qualification announced as an in-progress effort in the January 2024 strategy update; status to be re-verified at the next monthly refresh.

iso-27001
Certified

ISO/IEC 27001 information security management system, listed on Frankfurt cloud data center cert page

iso-27017
Certified

ISO/IEC 27017 cloud-specific information security controls

iso-27018
Certified

ISO/IEC 27018 cloud privacy controls for processing of personally identifiable information (PII)

iso-27701
Certified

ISO/IEC 27701 privacy information management system extension to ISO 27001

iso-50001
Certified

ISO 50001 energy management system; OVHcloud uses 100% renewable energy across its German and UK data centers and 'green energy' in all owned data centers per the environment page

hds
Certified

Hebergeur de Donnees de Sante (French healthcare data hosting accreditation)

pci-dss
Certified

PCI DSS payment card industry standard

soc-2-type-2
Certified

SOC 2 covering security, availability and confidentiality trust service criteria; SOC 1 also held

c5
Certified

German BSI C5 (Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog) cloud security baseline

csa-star
Certified

Cloud Security Alliance STAR registry membership and certification

enisa-eucs
Certified

European Union Cybersecurity Scheme for Cloud Services (ENISA EUCS) alignment per certification overview

tisax
Certified

Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange (TISAX) for automotive customers, ENX/VDA framework

nf-525
Certified

NF 525 certification (French AFNOR standard for certified accounting / cash-register software) -- listed on the OVHcloud certifications overview

US CLOUD Act exposure
Partial, via US subsidiaries
Open source
Has open components
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Pricing

Web Hosting

From a few EUR/month

annual subscription
  • Shared hosting plans (Personal, Pro, Performance)
  • Domain name included on most plans
  • Hosted in OVHcloud-owned EU data centers
Public Cloud Compute

Pay-as-you-go per hour or monthly commitments

hourly or monthly
  • Discovery, General Purpose, CPU, RAM and GPU instances
  • Managed Kubernetes, S3-compatible Object Storage, Databases
  • Customer-selectable region across 10+ Public Cloud data centers
Bare Metal Dedicated Servers

Monthly subscription

monthly
  • OVHcloud-designed water-cooled servers
  • Full root access; no hypervisor overhead
  • Anti-DDoS infrastructure included
Bare Metal Pod (SecNumCloud)

Contact OVHcloud

contract
  • SecNumCloud 3.2 qualified (qualified 31 March 2025)
  • Restricted to Roubaix / Gravelines / Strasbourg data centers
  • ANSSI guarantee: no data accessible, transferred or processed outside the EU
AI Endpoints

Per-token pricing

per-token, model-specific
  • Catalogue of 40+ open models (Meta Llama, Mistral, gpt-oss, Qwen3, FLUX.1, Whisper)
  • Sample pricing: Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 EUR 0.10/Mtoken, gpt-oss-120b EUR 0.08 in / 0.40 out per Mtoken
  • Base API (no commitment), Fast API (committed SLA) and Batch API tiers

Official downloads

Questions & Answers

6 questions

Where is OVHcloud headquartered, and which entity will I contract with?

OVH Groupe S.A. is a French Societe Anonyme registered at 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix (RCS Lille Metropole 537 407 926). Octave Klaba is Chairman; Benjamin Revcolevschi has been CEO since 23 October 2024. The group has been listed on Euronext Paris (ticker OVH) since October 2021 and is an SBF120 component since December 2021. European customers typically contract with the OVHcloud group's local affiliate -- OVH SAS in France, OVH GmbH in Germany, OVH Hispano in Spain, OVH SRL in Italy, OVH Hosting Limited in Ireland, OVH BV in the Netherlands, OVH Sp. z o.o. in Poland, OVH Limited in the UK, etc. US customers contract with OVH US LLC (Reston, VA), which operates the two US data centers in Hillsboro Oregon (HIL1) and Vint Hill Virginia (VIN1).

Is OVHcloud subject to the US CLOUD Act?

For default Public Cloud and Bare Metal workloads, OVHcloud anchors its group structure at OVH Groupe S.A. (French SA) under exclusive EU member-state jurisdiction, and the company 'systematically opposes' non-EU authority data requests on EU-hosted customer data. However, OVH US LLC (Reston, VA) exists as a US-jurisdictional sister entity operating the Hillsboro and Vint Hill data centers; for US customers contracting with OVH US LLC, CLOUD Act requests are addressed via the published Subpoena Policy at us.ovhcloud.com/legal/faqs/cloud-act/. For SecNumCloud 3.2-qualified workloads (Private Cloud VMware in Roubaix/Gravelines/Strasbourg, Bare Metal Pod), ANSSI's qualification guarantees that 'none of [the customer's] data will be accessible, transferred or processed outside of the European Union' -- the SecNumCloud subprocessor PDF explicitly excludes OVH Limited (UK) and all US/non-EU affiliates from these workloads.

Where will my data be stored on OVHcloud, and can I pin it to a specific region?

Yes. OVHcloud's data-sovereignty position is verbatim: 'The customer's data is always stored in the data centers of their choice. OVHcloud does not move customer data to other locations without the customer's consent.' Region selection happens at deploy time via the Data Center Designer. The 44 owned data centers are spread across France (Roubaix, Gravelines, Strasbourg), Germany (Limburg), Poland (Warsaw), the United Kingdom (Erith), Canada (Beauharnois), the United States (Hillsboro Oregon, Vint Hill Virginia), Singapore, Australia (Sydney) and India (Mumbai). SecNumCloud-qualified products (Private Cloud VMware, Bare Metal Pod) are restricted to the Roubaix / Gravelines / Strasbourg trio in France.

Where can I find OVHcloud's subprocessor list?

The canonical subprocessor list (v3.0, dated 16 October 2025) is a PDF hosted at storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net under the contracts bucket and names only OVH group affiliates: OVH GmbH (DE), OVH Hispano (ES), OVH SAS (FR), OVH SRL (IT), OVH Hosting Limited (IE), OVH Sp. z o.o. (PL), OVH Hosting Sistemas Informaticos Unipessoal (PT), OVH BV (NL) and OVH Hebergement Inc. (CA), plus regional DC-maintenance affiliates across BE, BG, CZ, DK, FI, NO, RO, SE, CH, AU, IN and MA. OVH Limited (UK) covers 'all services except SecNumCloud and Trusted Cloud', and the three APAC entities (OVH Australia PTY Ltd, OVH Tech R&D Private Limited in India and OVH Singapore PTE Ltd) cover only APAC-hosted services. Third-party processors are not consolidated -- they are listed in the per-product T&Cs.

What certifications does OVHcloud maintain?

SecNumCloud 3.2 from ANSSI for Private Cloud (VMware on OVHcloud, Roubaix / Gravelines / Strasbourg, renewed January 2024) and Bare Metal Pod (qualified 31 March 2025). The full portfolio also includes ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 27701, ISO 50001 (energy management), HDS (Hebergeur de Donnees de Sante for healthcare workloads), PCI DSS, SOC 1, SOC 2, C5 (German BSI cloud baseline), CSA STAR, NF 525, ENISA EUCS and TISAX. OVHcloud is also a signatory of the CISPE code of conduct (approved by the European Commission) and a member of GAIA-X with consortium leadership in 6 projects including Marispace-X for the maritime data sector. The company runs on 100% renewable energy across its German and UK data centers per the environment page.

What does OVHcloud sell beyond hosting?

Beyond web hosting and domain registration, OVHcloud sells: Public Cloud (Discovery, General Purpose, CPU, RAM and GPU instances; Managed Kubernetes; S3-compatible Object Storage; Cloud Cubes for AI and HPC; Software-Defined Data Center; Databases; Data Platform), Bare Metal Dedicated Servers, Bare Metal Pod (the SecNumCloud-qualified sovereign tier), Hosted Private Cloud (VMware-on-OVHcloud, SAP HANA, Nutanix variants), Veeam Backup as a Service, Anti-DDoS infrastructure, Telco Cloud and AI Endpoints. AI Endpoints publish per-token pricing across 40+ open models (Meta Llama 3.1/3.3, Mistral 7B/Nemo, gpt-oss-120b, Qwen3, FLUX.1, NVIDIA Riva TTS, Whisper STT) with Base / Fast / Batch API tiers. FY2025 group revenue was EUR 1,084.6 million (+9.3% LFL), with adjusted EBITDA margin of 40.4% and approximately 1,200 customers above EUR 100k ARR.

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Description
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  • primary · about-pagewww.ovhcloud.comMarketing site language selector across 8+ locales
Pricing
Features
Q&A
Integrations

Sovereignty (SHIELD)

SSubprocessors
HHeadquarters
HOwnership
HSubsidiaries
IData residency
IHosting infrastructure
  • primary · dns-recordswww.ovhcloud.comASN AS16276; NS ns104.ovh.net, ns200.anycast.me; MX mx0..3.mail.ovh.net; 198.27.92.0/24 prefix
  • primary · http-headerswww.ovhcloud.com/enx-cdn-pop: rbx, x-toujours-debout-location: GRA; self-hosted CDN on OVH-owned DCs (Roubaix + Gravelines)
  • primary · about-pagewww.ovhcloud.com/en/about-us/data-sovereigntySelf-designed servers, water cooling, own fibre backbone
EUS CLOUD Act exposure
LLegal documents
DCertifications
DOpen source
  • primary · othergithub.com/ovhOVHcloud GitHub organization with public repositories