Google Compute Engine VMs operated under S3NS's French sovereign boundary. Same machine families as commercial GCP (general-purpose, memory-optimised, compute-optimised, GPU) with Linux and Windows images, but run exclusively from French data centres by S3NS's French-jurisdiction staff — no Google parent-entity access to workloads.
Jurisdictional exposure
Sub-services (2)
Standard VMs
General-purpose Compute Engine families under S3NS operator
GPU VMs
NVIDIA-accelerated machine types for ML workloads
Compliance & Certifications
This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.
Where this runs
Sovereign regions (2)
- ParisS3NS Cloud de Confiance
- MarseilleS3NS Cloud de Confiance
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