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Towards a true multi-cloud offering to deliver on broken promises

Scaleway will not renew its GAIA-X membership, and will focus its time, money and attention on its multi-cloud product offering - a key factor of true reversibility and openness.

We were indeed fully supportive of the goals expressed and endorsed at the highest political level on both sides of the Rhine, i.e “ guaranteeing data sovereignty, availability, interoperability and portability ” and “ promoting transparency ”. We cherish the high-level principles underpinning GAIA-X’s activities, and our primary goal has been to avoid, as this is so often the case with green-washing, being faced with interoperability, portability or sovereignty-washing - while the related requirements would become “golden standards”, at EU and national levels. Impacting actions, to challenge the status quo: in order to clarify our positioning, we took also the decision to leave organizations we were part of, where no leverage in line with our values was effective, be it in terms of sovereignty, interoperability/portability, competition or environmental policy goals: this is the case for the Cloud infrastructure service provider in Europe association (CISPE), or with SWIPO, for the reasons mentioned above.

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