tl;dr – This could be difficult.
Airbus announced it will put out a request for proposal for the migration of some of its critical workflows – namely, its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, manufacturing execution systems, CRM, and aircraft design workloads.
At least part of the impetus for this push is concern with the U.S. CLOUD Act, legislation that allows American authorities to demand data from U.S.‑based cloud providers, even when that data is stored in Europe. It’s still not fully clear whether an entity like Airbus would be immune to this legislation.
The difficulty here is that Airbus is specifically seeking a European provider, and there’s some doubt as to whether there exists a continental provider that can handle things on the scale of the leading US hyperscalers Airbus currently uses as vendors (Google, Microsoft).
In another Eurocentric move, Airbus recently teamed up with fellow European companies, Leonardo and Thales, to create a joint venture aimed at forming a “leading European player in space [technology]”.
