S3NS Announces SecNumCloud Qualification for PREMI3NS, its Trusted Cloud Offering

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 19, 2025--

S3NS, a subsidiary of Thales in partnership with Google Cloud, today announced that PREMI3NS, its "Trusted Cloud" ( Cloud de confiance ) offering, has received the SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification delivered by the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI). Meeting SecNumCloud 3.2’s protection and resilience requirements, which are known as the most demanding ones in France and Europe, it offers immunity from non-European extraterritorial laws.

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With PREMI3NS, S3NS now offers businesses and public sector organizations the most extensive cloud service among the offerings that have received the SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification. PREMI3NS integrates the most advanced IaaS and PaaS technology from Google Cloud.

" The SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification is the result of the unparalleled collaboration between two cloud and cybersecurity leaders. It opens new opportunities for the French and European markets. Never has a SecNumCloud 3.2 - certified cloud offering included such a wide range of managed services. PREMI3NS will enable its customers to innovate, optimize, and transform with utmost confidence and security with their most sensitive applications. As a matter of fact, Thales group has chosen S3NS for its own IT and its sensitive engineering." saidChristophe Salomon, Deputy CEO, Secure Information and Communication Systems, Thales.

The SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification results from the original strategic partnership between Thales and Google Cloud and the creation of S3NS in 2022. It is the assertion of their combined ambition to offer an unparalleled solution on the market and is now available to all public and private organizations. With this qualification, S3NS, a company operating under French law and fully controlled by Thales, fulfills its commitment to deploying the most feature-rich cloud offering meeting the SecNumCloud 3.2 requirements on the market within three years of its creation.

PREMI3NS is operated and managed exclusively by S3NS employees in data centers located in France. All cloud technologies and their updates are quarantined, analyzed and then validated by S3NS before the company manages them in its dedicated infrastructure.

The SecNumCloud 3.2 framework is the most demanding standard for cloud security in Europe. France is currently the only country to require its public sector organizations to comply with its requirements when managing sensitive data, as the government commits to guaranteeing French citizens the optimal protection of their data.

Organizations are already choosing S3NS

PREMI3NS, now SecNumCloud-qualified, has been accessible for several months as part of S3NS’ “early adopters” program and tested by about thirty pioneering customers. S3NS is currently supporting insurance companies ( MGEN, Matmut, AGPM ), companies from the manufacturing industry ( Thales, Birdz, a subsidiary of Veolia ), the financial sector ( Qonto, BConnect ) and services ( Club Med ) as they progressively migrate to the "Trusted Cloud" and leverage the combined expertise of Thales and Google Cloud. EDF selected S3NS for the storage, processing, and valorization of the Group's strategic data, and Thales is already using PREMI3NS for its internal information system and its engineering.

The broadest range of cloud services with the SecNumCloud qualification on the market

PREMI3NS offers a large portfolio of IaaS, PaaS, and CaaS services, allowing organizations to operate their most sensitive applications in a high-performance and trusted environment. The offering revolves around fundamental and proven Google Cloud technological components, such as Compute Engine for virtual machine management, Cloud Storage for data storage, and Cloud SQL for relational databases. This robust foundation provides access to all the capacity, innovation, and robustness of the cloud through advanced managed services, including Google Kubernetes Engine for containerization, BigQuery for the market-leading, serverless, and highly scalable data warehouse preparing for an easy transition to AI, as well as cutting-edge solutions for network and interconnection management.

This extensive service portfolio will continue to grow in the coming months with S3NS notably preparing the integration of generative artificial intelligence solutions, and reaffirming its commitment to providing its customers with constant access to the most innovative technologies, within a trusted framework.

About S3NS

An alliance between Thales, a global leader in data protection and cybersecurity, and Google Cloud, a global leader in cloud technologies, S3NS offers public institutions and private companies, concerned about further protecting their most sensitive data, highly secure public cloud offerings to operate their transition to the trusted cloud, meeting the criteria of the ANSSI SecNumCloud framework. S3NS is a company under French law entirely controlled by Thales.

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ANSSI delivered the SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification for S3NS’ PREMI3NS offering, meeting all its requirements and passing all three milestones of the qualification process.

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The prime minister confirmed to provincial leaders that Dominic LeBlanc, the country’s point person for U.S-Canada trade relations, “will meet with U.S. counterparts in mid-January to launch formal discussions," Carney’s office said in a statement late Thursday.

The United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, or USMCA, is up for review in 2026. U.S. President Donald Trump negotiated the deal in his first term and included a clause to possibly renegotiate the deal in 2026.

Carney met with the leaders of Canada’s provinces on Thursday to give them an update on trade talks with the U.S.

Canada is one of the most trade-dependent countries in the world, and more than 75% of Canada’s exports go to the country's southern neighbor. But most exports to the U.S. are currently exempted by USMCA.

Trump cut off trade talks to reduce tariffs on certain sectors with Carney in October after the Ontario provincial government ran an anti-tariff advertisement in the U.S. That followed a spring of acrimony, since abated, over Trump’s insistence that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state.

Carney said earlier Thursday that Canada and the U.S. were close to an agreement at the time on sectoral tariff relief in multiple areas, including steel and aluminum. Tariffs are taking a toll on certain sectors of Canada's economy, particularly aluminum, steel, auto and lumber.

Carney also said trade irritants flagged this week by U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are elements of a “much bigger discussion” about continental trade. Greer said a coming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade deal will hinge on resolving U.S. concerns about Canadian policies on dairy products, alcohol and digital services.

Carney and the provincial premiers agreed to meet in person in Ottawa early in the new year.

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About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada, as are 85% of U.S. electricity imports.

Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the U.S. and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing in for national security.

Carney said U.S. access to Canada’s critical ministers is not a certainty.

“It’s a potential opportunity for the United States, but it’s not an assured opportunity for the United States. It’s part of a bigger discussion in terms of our trading relationship, because we have other partners around the world, in Europe for example, who are very interested in participating,” Carney said earlier Thursday.

FILE - Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney pumps his fist as he arrives to deliver remarks at the Liberal caucus holiday party in Ottawa, on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP, File)