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.
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.
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The comparison
| Host | In France | The company account in front of the app | Your teams’ AI agents | The database |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scalingo | Yes3 | No: filtering by IP address4 | No official MCP server: the command line | Managed PostgreSQL, with point-in-time recovery over 7 to 30 days5 |
| Upsun | Yes, two regions6 | No: a username and password, or a list of IP addresses7 | An MCP server in beta, read-only by default8 | Managed PostgreSQL, one backup per day kept 2 days by default9 |
| Scaleway | Yes, in its French region2 | No: a technical key to call the container10 | An MCP server in the CLI, with every command open by default11 | Managed PostgreSQL, one backup per day kept 7 days12 |
| while | Yes, with Nextmap, a French company | Yes: Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra or Keycloak, with no code to write | Over MCP: sensitive actions, like deleting a production database, wait for a person, and every action is recorded in the audit log | PostgreSQL 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
- Scalingo, home page, accessed November 2, 2026
- Scaleway, Serverless Containers, accessed November 2, 2026
- Scalingo, regions, accessed November 2, 2026
- Scalingo, the application firewall, accessed November 2, 2026
- Scalingo, database backups, accessed November 2, 2026
- Upsun, regions, accessed November 2, 2026
- Upsun, HTTP access control, accessed November 2, 2026
- Upsun, the MCP server, accessed November 2, 2026
- Upsun, backups, accessed November 2, 2026
- Scaleway, making a container private, accessed November 2, 2026
- Scaleway, the CLI’s MCP server, accessed November 2, 2026
- Scaleway, managed database backups, accessed November 2, 2026
- Upsun, platform overview (llms.txt), accessed November 2, 2026
- while, tested backups, accessed November 3, 2026