Broadcasting Center Europe (BCE) and Scaleway, Europe’s sovereign cloud and AI provider, share a common objective to provide credible European cloud alternatives for media organisations seeking transparency, control, and long-term alignment with European data residency and governance principles. The partnership follows a successful validation of selected media workloads on Scaleway’s exclusively European-operated cloud infrastructure, confirming it as a suitable platform for production-grade media environments across performance, scalability and operational stability.

By combining expertise from BCE in media workflows, system integration and managed services with cloud infrastructure from Scaleway, the companies will jointly design and develop cloud-native media services, addressing key media use cases such as content processing, distribution and storage. The services will be designed to support business-critical media operations while ensuring compliance with European regulatory frameworks, data protection requirements and sovereignty constraints. Beyond infrastructure consumption, the partnership includes close collaboration on architecture definition, operational models, security frameworks and service evolution, with a focus on real-world production constraints and long-term scalability.

Sylvain Merle, Chief Technology Officer, Broadcasting Center Europe, says: “This partnership reflects our ambition to build cloud-based media services that are operationally robust and aligned with European sovereignty expectations. Scaleway’s cloud platform demonstrated strong technical maturity during the evaluation phase, enabling us to confidently progress toward production use cases.”

Alexia Boulot, VP of Product, Scaleway, adds: “Media services place demanding requirements on cloud platforms in terms of performance, availability, and security. Working with BCE allows us to further engage our infrastructure with production-oriented media workloads and contribute to the development of sovereign cloud services for the media industry”

The partnership is intended to evolve over time, supporting innovation, operational excellence and sustainable growth within the European media ecosystem.