OVHcloud and S2GRUPO announce strategic partnership to strengthen European digital sovereignty and cyber resilience
Roubaix, France / Valencia, Spain | April 16, 2026 – At a time when digital sovereignty is rapidly becoming a strategic imperative and cyber threats are growing in scale, sophistication, and intensity, OVHcloud and S2GRUPO announce a strategic partnership. This collaboration brings together two leading European specialists in cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity, reinforcing Europe’s capability to protect its critical data, infrastructure, and digital economy.
By combining OVHcloud’s trusted and sovereign cloud solutions with S2GRUPO’s advanced cybersecurity expertise, the partnership delivers a powerful, fully European alternative for organizations seeking secure, compliant, and resilient digital environments. At the core of this collaboration lies a shared vision: to contribute to a safer digital Europe while strengthening the European technology ecosystem and enhancing geopolitical independence.
A powerful European alliance
OVHcloud, a global cloud player and the European Cloud leader, is renowned for its high-performance, scalable, and sovereign cloud infrastructure. With a global footprint of 46 datacenters and 21 datacenters in Europe, the Group has full control over its technology stack and value chain. OVHcloud offers certified and qualified solutions meeting the highest security standards such as HDS, PCI-DSS, SecNumCloud enabling organizations to maintain control over their data while benefiting from world-class cloud capabilities.
S2GRUPO, a European cybersecurity leader headquartered in Spain, with customers in more than 35 countries, specializes in protecting critical infrastructures and organizations against advanced cyber threats. With deep expertise in both IT and OT (Operational Technology) cybersecurity, S2GRUPO provides end-to-end security services, including managed detection and response (MDR) for OT and IT, threat intelligence, and incident response—tailored to highly regulated and mission-critical environments such as energy, utilities, transport, and industrial sectors. European sovereignty is in S2GRUPO DNA; core processes run on European (proprietary) technology or Open Source Software. S2GRUPO is a 100% European Cyber Security company.
Addressing the dual challenge: sovereignty and security
Europe’s dependency on American Cloud Service Providers puts organisations at risk, especially with extra-territorial laws. At the same time, cyber incidents affecting EU organisations have risen 69% since 2020, with critical infrastructure now accounting for 70% of all reported incidents in 2025[i]. Attacks on Operational Technology (OT) environments — the industrial control systems underpinning energy, transport, water and manufacturing — have grown to represent nearly one in five of all identified threat categories across Europe.
The regulatory response is already under way. The NIS2 Directive establishes a unified legal framework to uphold cybersecurity across 18 critical sectors in the EU, while also requiring Member States to define national cybersecurity strategies and strengthen cooperation with EU institutions for cross-border response and enforcement. Belgium has already become the first EU member state to fully transpose NIS2 into national law, with over 4,000 essential and important entities registered. The Netherlands, meanwhile, is finalising its Cyberbeveiligingswet, expected to enter into force in 2026, bringing thousands of additional organisations into scope and significantly raising the bar for incident response, supply chain security, and executive accountability.
The partnership between OVHcloud and S2GRUPO offers fully European cloud and cybersecurity solutions, giving regulated industries the confidence to have protection and advanced resiliency while maintaining full control over how their data is stored, processed, and secured, free from non-European jurisdictional exposure. Furthermore, it can help organizations comply with the NIS2, GDPR, and other sector-specific European frameworks, reducing the regulatory risk for essential and important entities, across both corporate and industrial environments.
Strengthening Europe’s Digital Future
Together, the two organisations aim to:
- Enable secure, compliant migration to sovereign European cloud environments.
- Protect critical infrastructure in energy, transport, manufacturing and public services from advanced and persistent threats.
- Support NIS2 readiness across essential and important entities navigating new obligations in the EU.
- Drive innovation within the European technology ecosystem, reducing strategic dependency on non-EU providers.
- Contribute to Europe's geopolitical resilience — ensuring that digital infrastructure remains under European control at a moment when that control has never mattered more.
“In today’s geopolitical context, digital sovereignty is no longer optional—it is essential. We are proud to collaborating with S2GRUPO to help European businesses and institutions tackle their mission-critical and data-sensitive projects with the utmost respect for sovereignty and security. This partnership reinforces our commitment to providing sovereign cloud solutions that enable European organisations to retain control over their data and infrastructure.” — says Sylvie Houliere Mayca, Head of France-Middle East-Africa-BeLux at OVHcloud.
“Cybersecurity is a cornerstone of digital sovereignty. Together with OVHcloud, we provide a uniquely European proposition that combines secure cloud infrastructure with advanced IT and OT cybersecurity capabilities, ensuring that Europe’s critical assets remain protected.” — says Robin Goudappel, Managing Director BeNeLux for S2GRUPO.
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About OVHcloud
OVHcloud is a global cloud player and the leading European cloud provider operating over 500,000 servers within 46 data centers across 4 continents to reach 1,6 million customers in over 140 countries. Spearheading a trusted cloud and pioneering a sustainable cloud with the best performance-price ratio, the Group has been leveraging for over 20 years an integrated model that guarantees total control of its value chain: from the design of its servers to the construction and management of its data centers, including the orchestration of its fiber-optic network. This unique approach enables OVHcloud to independently cover all the uses of its customers so they can seize the benefits of an environmentally conscious model with a frugal use of resources and a carbon footprint reaching the best ratios in the industry. OVHcloud now offers customers the latest-generation solutions combining performance, predictable pricing, and complete data sovereignty to support their unfettered growth.
About S2GRUPO
S2GRUPO is the only 100% privately owned, Spanish, and independent company in the cybersecurity, cyberdefense, and cyberintelligence sector. Specializing in the protection of critical infrastructure, strategic sectors, and large corporations, the company has developed, since its founding in 2004, a comprehensive IT+OT cybersecurity model designed to ensure operational continuity for organizations in highly digitized environments and sectors with essential infrastructure.
With over 700 specialized professionals, S2GRUPO operates with a full-cycle approach, addressing security from anticipation and prevention through to real-time mitigation and recovery. It has a Rapid Response Team (RRT) specialized in detecting and neutralizing attacks against critical infrastructure, an expert team in Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) for investigating cyber incidents and recovering digital assets, and a highly qualified OT team dedicated to protecting industrial environments and control systems in sectors such as energy, transportation, and manufacturing.
S2GRUPO’s strategic decisions align with European interests in digital sovereignty and technological autonomy. The company is headquartered in Valencia and has a presence in more than 35 countries. It has offices in Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, San Sebastián, Bogotá, Santiago de Chile, Rotterdam, Dublin, and Lisbon.