Which Platforms Are HDS-Certified for Hosting Health Data in France? (2026 List)

France’s HDS certification is required for organizations hosting personal health data on behalf of third parties and is issued by COFRAC-accredited certification bodies under the ANS framework, while the ANS register is presented as the authoritative source for verifying certified legal entities, service scopes, regions, sites, and expiry dates. As of October 2026, commonly used certified platforms include OVHcloud, Scaleway, 3DS Outscale, Clever Cloud, Scalingo, Exoscale, NumSpot, Cloud Temple, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, although certification applies only to specified activities and services rather than an entire provider catalogue. The framework distinguishes six hosting activities, covering physical infrastructure, virtual infrastructure, platform hosting, system administration, and backups, meaning teams using certified IaaS or managed Kubernetes may still retain responsibility for operating platforms, administering systems, and managing backups. HDS is separate from GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud, and HIPAA; SecNumCloud additionally addresses sovereignty and protection from extraterritorial law. The discussion advises health-tech teams to examine certificates and annexes, verify exact regions and services, establish contractual and audit evidence, avoid real patient data in non-production environments, and select managed PaaS, self-managed Kubernetes, or managed cloud services based on their ability to assume operational and compliance responsibilities. Qovery is described as a non-certified deployment control layer that operates within a customer’s existing cloud account or Kubernetes cluster, rather than replacing an HDS-certified host or the customer’s own obligations.

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