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The best sovereign hosting for business apps in 2026

Your teams now build their business apps with an AI agent, and IT has to keep up. Here’s where to host them in France, behind the company account, and still keep control over what goes to production.

By Grégoire Mougeolle, co-founder of Nextmap. Facts checked on November 2, 2026. How this comparison is made.

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The right choice depends on your app

  • Do your apps handle health data, or do your customers require certifications? Choose Scalingo: it is ISO 27001 certified and offers health data hosting1.
  • Does your team prefer to assemble its own European cloud? Choose Scaleway: containers, database and network are separate products there, with a region in France2.
  • Do your teams deploy with their AI agent, and does IT need to stay in control? Choose while: each app opens with the company account, and sensitive actions wait for a person.

Try while on your app, without an account. Copy the instructions

The comparison

HostIn FranceThe company account in front of the appYour teams’ AI agentsThe database
ScalingoYes3No: filtering by IP address4No official MCP server: the command lineManaged PostgreSQL, with point-in-time recovery over 7 to 30 days5
UpsunYes, two regions6No: a username and password, or a list of IP addresses7An MCP server in beta, read-only by default8Managed PostgreSQL, one backup per day kept 2 days by default9
ScalewayYes, in its French region2No: a technical key to call the container10An MCP server in the CLI, with every command open by default11Managed PostgreSQL, one backup per day kept 7 days12
whileYes, with Nextmap, a French companyYes: Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra or Keycloak, with no code to writeOver MCP: sensitive actions, like deleting a production database, wait for a person, and every action is recorded in the audit logPostgreSQL backed up every day, with point-in-time recovery over 14 days14

Scalingo, built for compliance

Scalingo is built for compliance, with ISO 27001 and health data hosting, and it responds to critical incidents in under 15 minutes on average1.

Upsun, production cloned for every branch

Upsun, formerly Platform.sh, clones all of production for every branch, database included13.

Scaleway, the European cloud you assemble yourself

Scaleway runs your containers from zero to 200 instances depending on demand, in a European cloud2.

while, your teams’ apps under IT’s control

Your teams deploy their apps with their AI agent, over MCP, and IT stays in control. Each app opens with the company account, whether Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra or Keycloak, without a line of code. Sensitive actions, like deleting a production database, wait for a person, permissions go down to the table, and every action is recorded in a signed audit log. With the Enterprise plan, high availability is there by default, the audit log goes to your SIEM and is kept for 7 years, and a production deployment can require two approvals. Everything runs in France, with Nextmap.

Next steps

Sources

  1. Scalingo, home page, accessed November 2, 2026
  2. Scaleway, Serverless Containers, accessed November 2, 2026
  3. Scalingo, regions, accessed November 2, 2026
  4. Scalingo, the application firewall, accessed November 2, 2026
  5. Scalingo, database backups, accessed November 2, 2026
  6. Upsun, regions, accessed November 2, 2026
  7. Upsun, HTTP access control, accessed November 2, 2026
  8. Upsun, the MCP server, accessed November 2, 2026
  9. Upsun, backups, accessed November 2, 2026
  10. Scaleway, making a container private, accessed November 2, 2026
  11. Scaleway, the CLI’s MCP server, accessed November 2, 2026
  12. Scaleway, managed database backups, accessed November 2, 2026
  13. Upsun, platform overview (llms.txt), accessed November 2, 2026
  14. while, tested backups, accessed November 3, 2026

Questions

Which one is SecNumCloud qualified?

None of the PaaS platforms in this comparison is qualified itself. Scalingo offers a region on Outscale’s qualified infrastructure1.

Can your teams deploy without going through IT?

On while, yes, within the limits IT sets: sensitive actions, like deleting a production database, wait for a person who is allowed to approve them.

Do you have to invite every employee who opens an app?

No. They sign in with the company account, through their group or their email domain, with no while account to create.

What about the contract?

The Enterprise plan is on quote. Write to the team: hello@while.sh.

Connect your agent, it takes care of the rest

To paste into your agent

Read while.sh/agents, then deploy my app with while.

Copy the instructions

No account needed to try: your app is live right away. To keep it, sign in.

A project for your company? Talk to the team: hello@while.sh