Accelerating Your Ecological Transition with Cloud Solutions

As the world grapples with the imperative to reduce energy consumption and environmental impact, embracing a digital transformation aligned with ecological values becomes paramount. In this era of change, Hadrien Faucquez, Public Sector Manager at Scaleway, will guide you through how public cloud solutions and Scaleway can support your municipality or organization in its responsible digital journey.

The Environmental Challenge

In recent months, the necessity of managing electricity consumption has become evident, both for economic and environmental reasons. The digital sector alone contributes to approximately 4% of greenhouse gas emissions. But it doesn't stop at electricity; we're also experiencing water scarcity. Scaleway, however, has been addressing these challenges for over a decade, offering sustainable alternatives.

## About Scaleway Who is Scaleway, and why are we your ideal partner in this journey?

Scaleway is a French sovereign cloud provider serving over 25,000 clients worldwide. We are proudly 100% owned by the Iliad Group, a prominent European tech innovator. With a team of over 600 professionals, mainly engineers, we continuously develop and enrich a secure ecosystem that complies with GDPR standards.

Our infrastructure, bolstered by four data centers in the Paris region, provides a complete cloud region, ensuring data sovereignty. Scaleway stands out as the most sovereign player in the cloud industry.

## Scaleway's Offerings and UGAP Partnership Scaleway offers a comprehensive ecosystem of public cloud products and services, covering all your infrastructure needs. From traditional services like instances, storage, and managed databases to cutting-edge solutions like Serverless, we cater to it all. Plus, we enable you to create hybrid cloud environments by integrating dedicated servers into our public cloud ecosystem, thanks to Elastic Metal.

For municipalities and administrations, accessing Scaleway's public cloud services is made easy through the UGAP and Capgemini cloud services marketplace.

## Benefits of Public Cloud for Communities How does the cloud benefit communities and local governments? In a traditional "on-premises" infrastructure setup, deploying new applications involves a lengthy process of ordering, receiving, installing, configuring servers, and setting up connectivity. This can take months before actual development begins. Cloud infrastructure offers flexibility and speed, allowing communities and administrations to bypass these constraints.

Infrastructure in the cloud can be ordered and configured within minutes. Moreover, with cloud services, organizations no longer need to manage the maintenance of internal servers. They can subscribe to cloud services on demand, accommodating temporary traffic spikes, and only pay for actual consumption, optimizing their investments.

## Adapting to Community Needs The flexibility of cloud services benefits a wide range of applications requiring IT infrastructure. For example, Scaleway collaborates with local authorities that have migrated their digital learning environments for students to the cloud. These platforms experience varying usage patterns, particularly with seasonal changes. The cloud enables them to adapt to peak loads and downtimes effectively.
## How Scaleway reduces your impact By now, it's clear that adopting public cloud solutions can help limit your ecological footprint. But what sets Scaleway apart in the cloud landscape?

For over a decade, Scaleway has been committed to eco-responsible practices on four fronts:

1. Minimizing energy consumption in data centers which only use renewable energy and employ innovative, ecological cooling techniques.
2. Limiting water consumption to the equivalent of 30 French households per year.
3. Extending server lifespan and minimizing electronic waste.
4. Offering energy-efficient cloud products like Serverless.
   

Scaleway is your ideal partner in achieving a responsible digital transformation. Our European roots ensure compliance with GDPR, and our data centers in France provide redundancy and resilience to meet various challenges.

Discover how Scaleway can accelerate your ecological transition. Contact us for inquiries or explore our offerings