In this context, the question is no longer whether to migrate, but how to structure what already exists, maintain control over day-to-day operations, and retain ownership of environments and data.

On Tuesday 28 April at 11:30 AM, Clever Cloud and Cycloid are hosting a webinar to address these challenges.

Two complementary perspectives on a shared challenge

We are offering a cross-functional discussion to provide concrete insight into these topics.

Cycloid covers the structuring and governance of environments through a unified internal developer platform and portal. Clever Cloud addresses managed operations, operational maintenance (MCO) and operational sovereignty.

Join Florent Perreux (Chief Sales Officer @ Clever Cloud), Steven Le Roux (CTO @ Clever Cloud), Alexandre Blin (Business Director SEMEA @ Cycloid) and Olivier de Turckheim (Solution Architect @ Cycloid) to understand how to align governance and operations without adding complexity.

Agenda

🔹 Why cloud modernisation goes beyond migration;plus à une migration;

🔹 Structuring and governance challenges in multi-cloud environments;

🔹 Operational challenges related to operations and maintenance;

🔹 How to align governance and operations without multiplying complexity;

🔹 A live Q&A session to ask your questions directly.

Why attend?

✅ Understand the root causes of complexity in cloud projects;

✅ Identify the levers to structure your usage and reduce vendor dependency;

✅ Gain a clearer understanding of operational and sovereignty challenges;

✅ Benefit from concrete real-world experience;

✅ Engage directly with experts.

Register now

🗓️ Tuesday 28 April 2026

⏰ 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

💻 Online webinar on Livestorm

Facing these challenges? Join us on 28 April!

Winter is often synonymous with withdrawal. Not for Clever Cloud. Following a busy autumn 2025 full of meetups, we're continuing into 2026 with a series of diverse events.

For developers, entrepreneurs, or anyone curious about technological developments, these gatherings provide opportunities to follow current topics and challenges. On the agenda: technical conferences, meetups, and business appointments.

Come meet our teams and connect with the ecosystem!

January 2026

SnowCamp2026

📆 January 14–17, 2026
📍 Grenoble – Alpexpo

Clever Cloud will be present as a sponsor of SnowCamp 2026, the 10th edition. The event includes a day of training, two days of technical conferences, and a day of informal mountain exchanges (unconference).

Come meet the Clever Cloud team at our booth to discuss the latest tech trends, ask your questions, and discover our latest offerings in an environment conducive to learning and networking.

ElsassJUG – Strasbourg

📆 January 22, 2026
📍 Strasbourg – EPITECH

Quentin Adam, our CEO, will be speaking at a meetup organized by ElsassJUG, the Alsace Java User Group. While primarily focused on Java, the group also covers a wide range of technical topics, including software development, the JVM ecosystem, and related technologies.

On this occasion, he will share his vision of digital sovereignty, explaining how every technological choice shapes our collective autonomy—and how developers can become concrete agents of change to help build a sustainable, self-determined, and ambitious digital future.

Zero to One 2026

📆 January 28–29, 2026
📍 Nantes – Le Palace

As a partner of the 3rd edition of Zero to One in Nantes, Clever Cloud will take part in this event dedicated to startups and scale-ups. The event brings together founders, executives, investors, and experts to discuss the challenges of building and scaling innovative projects.

Throughout the two days, the Clever Cloud team will be on site to meet attendees, share real-world feedback, and discuss cloud-related topics and product scaling challenges.

FOSDEM 2026

📆 January 31 – February 1, 2026
📍 Brussels – ULB and online

FOSDEM is one of Europe’s largest open-source events, bringing developers and contributors together for technical talks and sessions.

This edition will feature our colleague Loïc Tosser, who will present PyInfra: Because Your Infrastructure Deserves Real Code in Python, Not YAML Soup in the Python Devroom. He will demonstrate how to replace heavy YAML files with readable, testable, reusable Python code. Additionally, he will show how complex Ansible playbooks can be transformed into concise scripts, making infrastructure more expressive, robust, and aligned with modern development practices.

February 2026

JFokus 2026

📆 February 2–4, 2026
📍 Stockholm, Sweden – Waterfront Congress Centre

Clever Cloud will be taking part in JFokus 2026, an international developer conference focused on Java, cloud, and emerging technologies. Our DevRel, Horacio Gonzalez, will lead the session “MCP Servers Beyond 101: Good Practices, Design Choices and Their Consequences.”

During this session, he will showcase real-world projects, share best practices, and highlight common pitfalls to avoid. He will also discuss the impact of design choices on developer experience, performance, and security.

The Clever Cloud team will also be available at our booth to meet attendees and answer your questions about cloud technologies, JVM architectures, and our latest solutions.

Touraine Tech – Back to School

📆 February 12–13, 2026
📍 Tours – University of Tours, Faculty of Science and Technology

As a sponsor of the Back to School edition of Touraine Tech, Clever Cloud will take part in this technical conference focused on digital technologies in the Centre region. The event takes place every year over two days in Tours.

Our DevRel, Horacio Gonzalez, will speak during the session “Rediscovering PHP: Modern Practices Beyond Legacy Code.” Come see us at our booth to discover our latest updates and talk with our team about cloud technologies, best practices, and development challenges.

April 2026

MiXiT 2026

📆 April 16–17, 2026
📍 Lyon (Villeurbanne) – CPE, University Lyon 1 Campus

Meet Clever Cloud at MiXiT 2026, a technical conference in Lyon celebrating its 15th edition. The event covers a range of topics, including technology, teamwork, ethics, and innovation, with a strong focus on accessibility and sustainability.

The Clever Cloud team invites you to visit our booth to discuss your projects, current cloud challenges, and our latest innovations.

Devoxx France 2026

📆 April 22–24, 2026
📍 Paris – Palais des Congrès, Porte Maillot

Devoxx France is one of Europe's leading conferences dedicated to developers and IT professionals. Over three days, the event offers technical talks around software development, architecture, cloud, and best practices.

On-site, the Clever Cloud team will be available to engage with participants, discuss current technical challenges, and present our latest innovations. Come visit our booth to share your experiences and discuss your projects.

See you there — we look forward to meeting you!

The announcement was made during the Franco-German summit “Summit on European Digital Sovereignty – Shaping Europe’s digital future. Together.” Both companies see this collaboration as a key lever to make artificial intelligence more accessible and truly sovereign in Europe.

They note that despite growing interest in AI, industrial adoption is still significantly hindered by computing costs. SpiNNcloud’s current systems already reduce certain costs by up to 17x. The next architecture, SpiNNext, is expected to push efficiency gains even further, with potential savings of up to 80x. A breakthrough that could reshape the dynamics of AI industrialization on the continent.

A Franco-German cooperation for a sovereign AI infrastructure

The two partners see their collaboration as a structuring component of a Franco-German  initiative dedicated to AI infrastructures. They emphasize that sustainable competition with global giants will only be possible by strengthening cooperation among European players. Their ambition goes beyond their own partnership: they aim to involve other innovative SMEs across the continent to form a network of expertise capable of delivering essential digital building blocks without external dependency.

Clever Cloud operates a European cloud platform for hosting, automation, databases, and orchestration. All technology is developed in-house and operated in Europe. The company employs around one hundred people and serves customers in more than 120 countries. 
SpiNNcloud, for its part, develops computing architectures inspired by the human brain, designed for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence applications. Its systems currently rely on the SpiNNaker2 architecture, while SpiNNext is already under development.

The cooperation has entered an operational phase. The first SpiNNcloud systems are being integrated into Clever Cloud’s infrastructure, and technical tests are underway. Two workstreams are being developed: leveraging the performance of the systems for intensive computing, and a shared “Token as a Service” layer, enabling companies to use AI services -language models or other algorithms - based on actual consumption, with significantly reduced costs and energy usage. The teams have aligned their roadmap around integration, security, and operations.

By relying on European technologies-both hardware and software-the two companies aim to contribute to the emergence of a truly independent AI infrastructure. Following the summit, they plan to continue discussions with French, German, and European authorities to share insights on infrastructures, energy efficiency, and digital sovereignty. The event held between President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Friedrich Merz also provided a platform for extensive exchanges with the attending delegations.

Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud, States: “We want a Europe that develops its own technologies and takes control of its digital future. With SpiNNcloud, we demonstrate that European industry not only has the expertise but also the determination to address the major challenges of AI: costs, energy consumption, sovereignty. This collaboration shows that a cooperating Europe can design high-performance, efficient, and truly independent infrastructures.”

Hector Gonzalez, CEO of SpiNNcloud, adds: “With Clever Cloud, we found an ideal partner to bring the unique energy efficiency of our brain-inspired systems to industrial use cases. This Franco-German cooperation proves that Europe has the technological building blocks needed to build competitive and sovereign solutions.”

About SpiNNcloud

SpiNNcloud is reinventing AI infrastructure through a brain-inspired computing architecture designed to drastically reduce energy consumption while maintaining high performance. Its event-based approach, in which computations occur only when needed, opens up new margins of efficiency. The company provides complete systems to research centers and enterprises worldwide.

Want to learn more about this project?

Feel free to contact us.

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On December 11, 2025, Clever Cloud invites you to its own conference, ACCES – Amazing Clever Cloud Enterprise Summit, as part of FOST Paris – The Future Of Software Technologies. A day dedicated to Clever Cloud news, keynotes, round tables, and networking, with a 50% discount on your pass for the 3 days of conferences. And from December 9 to 11, meet Clever Cloud and its partners at our booth at FOST, in Paris La Défense.

Following the success of the Clever Cloud Fest, ACCES will offer the opportunity to:

• Discover new product updates and the 2026 roadmap.
• Attend keynotes and panel discussions.
• Explore demonstrations and case study feedback showcasing real use cases and fostering exchanges.
• Enjoy an unforgettable evening to close the event.

Beyond the sessions, this day will also provide a unique networking opportunity to meet partners, clients, and experts, share ideas, and build together the future of European sovereign cloud.

Clever Cloud is delighted to offer 50% off your FOST pass, which lets you attend ACCES and all three days of conferences.

Practical Information

📅 Date: December 11, 2025
📍 Location: CNIT Forest – 2 Place de la Défense, Puteaux (Paris La Défense)
Event: part of FOST Paris – The Future Of Software Technologies

Get ready for a day that will mark the end of your year!

ACCES is part of FOST – The Future Of Software Technologies, the largest European gathering focused on software and emerging technologies. Formerly an independent event, APIDAYS is now integrated into FOST, contributing to this new format, which now brings together more than 25 independent conferences.

The conferences take place within sub-events such as APIDAYS, Les Rencontres de la DSI, GenAI (which will host ACCES), and GreenIO, and also cover key topics like cybersecurity, IT governance, open source, automation, and digital transformation. This format encourages exchanges between tech communities and allows, with a single pass, access to all FOST conferences and content.

So, are you ready to take part in this unique experience?

Book now your 3-day conference pass and enjoy 50% off!

We look forward to seeing you in Paris!

These events are opportunities to meet our teams, discuss tech trends, and discover how sovereign cloud computing can transform your IT projects while ensuring data security.

October 2025

Volcamp 2025

📆 October 2–3, 2025
📍 Clermont-Ferrand, France
At this unique tech conference in the heart of the Auvergne volcanoes, Alexandre Burgoni will give a talk titled “The Distributed System That Survived 1 Billion Series.”

Digital Bridge

📆 October 2‑4, 2025
📍 Astana - Kazakhstan

Quentin Adam will represent Clever Cloud at this event, considered the largest international technology forum in Central Asia. He will speak on October 2 in a panel discussion entitled: “AI at Scale: How Corporate Innovation Is Shaping the Future of AI Adoption”.

MAJ#1 – Medef

📆 October 7, 2025, 9h00 – 13h00
📍 MEDEF, 55 Av. Bosquet, Paris 7th

An event designed for executives, founders, and decision-makers to decipher the major challenges of the moment: cloud, AI, cybersecurity, finance, HR, regulatory innovations, and more. Quentin Adam will deliver the keynote speech.

Nantes City Healthcare 2025

📆 October 7, 2025
📍 Nantes

Clever Cloud will be present as a sponsor to showcase its sovereign cloud platform, which secures healthcare data and simplifies the routine tasks of IT teams. Come and meet our team on our stand and discover how digital technology can transform healthcare.

Blue Day Edge Computing 

📆 October 9, 2025
📍 Brest
Quentin Adam will attend the panel discussion “Technical challenges of edge computing” joined by Benoit Souyri (Thales) and Olivier Berder (Granit IRISA). A conversation about the technical challenges and innovations shaping the future of the cloud and decentralized computing.

Forum PHP 2025

📆 October 9-10, 2025
📍 Disneyland Paris

Clever Cloud will be sponsoring Forum PHP 2025, which celebrates 30 years of PHP and 25 years of AFUP. Two days of conferences, workshops, and meetings to discuss performance, security, and modern infrastructures in the PHP ecosystem. Come meet us at our booth to share expertise and feedback.

November 2025

BDX I/O

📆 November 7, 2025
📍 Le Palais des Congrès, Bordeaux

What is BDX I/O?
BDX I/O is a conference in Bordeaux dedicated to programming and digital professions. At the 2024 edition, more than 1,000 enthusiasts gathered for a day of discovery and exchange.

In our DevRel Horacio Gonzalez's session, “Will LLMs replace developers?”, he explains how language models (LLMs) are transforming development practices and why the role of the developer is evolving rather than disappearing.

Unlock Your Brain (UYBHYS) 2025

📆 November 7–8, 2025
📍 Le Quartz – Brest

For its 10th anniversary, UYBHYS is back with two days of conferences, workshops, a student bug bounty, and a career forum focused on cybersecurity. Clever Cloud will be there as an event sponsor, supporting this Brest-based initiative that brings together innovation, knowledge sharing, and digital security.

DevFest Toulouse 2025

📆 November 13, 2025
📍 Toulouse

Erwan Rougeux, VP International Growth/Business Development at Clever Cloud, will participate in this renowned event for the tech community. He will deliver the closing keynote alongside Sylvain Wallez, on the topic of unusual home automation.

Codeurs en Seine

📆 November 20, 2025
📍 Rouen

Codeurs en Seine is one of Normandy's major tech events, bringing together developers and digital professionals for conferences, workshops, meetups, and partner stands. Quentin Adam will give a keynote speech on digital sovereignty in Europe, and our DevRel Horacio Gonzalez will also speak at a conference. Clever Cloud will be sponsoring the 2025 edition: come and visit us at our booth to chat with our team and share expertise and feedback.

Adopt AI

📆 November 25-26, 2025
📍 Paris

An event dedicated to artificial intelligence and its practical applications in business. The event will bring together large corporations, startups, tech leaders, and decision-makers to discuss topics such as responsible innovation, AI governance, digital sovereignty, and large-scale deployment.
Organized by Artefact, the 2025 edition will offer several themed stages to explore the adoption of AI in key sectors such as healthcare, finance, industry, and luxury goods.

DevFest Lyon 2025

📆 November 28, 2025
📍 Lyon

In his talk, “Building smarter MCP servers: generic vs. domain-specific approaches,” our DevRel Horacio Gonzalez will explain how to harness the power of LLMs with MCP servers. He will present concrete examples, compare generic and domain-specific approaches, and give practical advice on choosing or building the best solution for your AI projects, whether it's a versatile chatbot or a specialized AI assistant.

December 2025

DevFest Dijon 2025

📆 December 5, 2025
📍 UFR Sciences et Techniques – Dijon

Our DevRel Horacio Gonzalez will lead a hands-on workshop to discover htmx 2.0 and Web Components with Lit.
You will explore live coding and interactive exercises, learn how to create reusable components, and see how to combine htmx and Lit to build modular and maintainable projects with minimal JavaScript.

API Days

 📆 December 9-11, 2025
📍 CNIT Forest / La Défense, Paris

A major event dedicated to API-first architectures and their convergence with artificial intelligence. Over 20 tech conferences on APIs, Cloud & Infrastructure, AI, software architecture, and Open Source.
Clever Cloud will be a sponsor, and the entire team will be available to talk with developers, CTOs, and business leaders about our expertise and feedback. Come meet us at our booth!

For Madietenligne, a platform that supports over 2,500 dieticians in managing their business, ensuring compliance was becoming more and more complex... until they migrated to Clever Cloud's HDS-certified PaaS.

On Tuesday June 17, 2025 at 11:30 a.m., Madietenligne looks back at this strategic shift during an HDS-certified webinar.

Why an HDS compliance webinar?

As a certified healthcare data host for the 6 activities covered by the standard, Clever Cloud supports editors who want to focus on their core business, without sacrificing security or sovereignty.

In this webinar, we will discuss:

• A clear overview of HDS obligations and their practical impact on your solution;
• HDS compliance “fast-track”: benefit immediately from a certified, sovereign cloud, with no regulatory or administrative formalities to deal with;
• Behind the scenes of Madietenligne's < 3 week migration, and the gains observed (security, scalability, sovereignty);
• Any points you'd like to clarify, through a live Q&A session.

The program

Join Florent Perreux (Chief Sales Officer @ Clever Cloud) and Eddy Montus (Co-founder @ MaDietEnLigne) as they explore, step by step, the challenges and rewards of migrating to a sovereign, HDS-compliant cloud.

On the agenda:

🔹 The challenges of HDS compliance for companies processing healthcare data ;

🔹 The concrete benefits of an HDS-certified PaaS ;

🔹 The experience of a customer committed to security and sovereignty issues ;

🔹 A Q&A session to ask your questions.

Why participate?

🔖 Understand HDS obligations and how to meet them;

🎯 Discover a real-life case study from a committed SaaS healthcare publisher;

👑 Explore a sovereign, scalable and compliant cloud solution;

❓ Chat live with our speakers.

🗣️ "In less than three weeks, we migrated our dev and prod environments.  And most importantly, I'm more than satisfied with the service and excellent support!"— Eddy Montus, Co-founder @ Madietenligne

Register now

📅 Tuesday, June 17, 2025

⏰ 11:30 AM - 12h00 PM

💻 Livestorm online webinar

You code, we guarantee HDS compliance, combined with sovereign, scalable and automated hosting. Join us on June 17 to find out how! 🚀

A look back at this striking event: :

Key announcements at clever cloud fest

This first edition was marked by keynotes, conferences, round tables discussion, feedback and demo workshops.

New products announced

During the Produits & Marché keynote, Quentin Adam and Steven Le Roux presented Clever Cloud's latest news and announcements.

On this chance, 11 new products were revealed, aimed for improving the developer experience and optimizing the efficiency of cloud infrastructures.

Two MACI podcasts recorded during the clever cloud fest

Episode 127 "À la recherche d'une troisième voie pour un futur tech désirable".
A look back at the day's announcements, with a discussion on the future of the digital industry in France and Europe.

Episode 128 "FreeBSD planifie les sorties de container en open source".
A look back at the event and news about Keycloak, Datadog and FreeBSD.

Clever AI & Otoroshi MCP demonstration

Clever AI was presented as a solution to optimize AI access for companies, with features such as retry intelligent, control policies and cost optimization.

Otoroshi MCP, was also highlighted for its role in API management and security, enabling seamless and secure integration of cloud services..

Networking evening

The Thursday evening event offered participants the chance to exchange ideas in a convivial setting, encouraging networking opportunities between the various players present.

The clever cloud fest in replay

Were you unable to attend certain sessions, or would you like to see some of the presentations again?

Don't panic! Replay of keynotes, round-tables discussion and feedbacks are already available on our YouTube channel.

As for demo workshops will be available online very soon.

Our sponsors

Many thanks to our sponsors for their support and participation, which contributed to the success of this event:

Linagora is a French open-source software company specializing in the creation of solutions for open source and artificial intelligence.

The company creates collaborative tools, data management and AI models, including Lucie.

Founded in 2012, Vates is a French open source software company specializing in virtualization solutions.

The company offers an alternative to VMware with XCP-ng, a virtualization platform, and Xen Orchestra, a management tool for virtualized infrastructures based on XCP-ng and XenServer.

Jamespot is a French company specializing in corporate social networks, collaborative platforms and internal communication.

Jamespot is the main contributor to CollabNext, an initiative aimed at enriching collaborative platforms with innovative functionalities and seamless integration.

Thanks to our equipment sponsor PCBWay.

Thanks to participants

We would like to warmly thank all the participants for their commitment, their exchanges, and their enthusiasm.

The event gathered over 200 people and generated 3,500 live views over the two days.

We would also like to thank them for their positive feedback, underlining the quality of the discussions and the diversity of the topics covered.

From all over France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and Ivory Coast, you made this event a memorable one.

Many thanks to Smartmedias for their work on the technical control room, ensuring the smooth running of the event.

We would also like to express our gratitude to Palace_icilundi. Their welcome and logistical support contributed to the success of this event.

You all made this event a rich experience of sharing, learning and discovery.

In the meantime, continue to follow us to stay informed of our news!

More than just a service provider, Clever Cloud is at the heart of an ecosystem that brings together different initiatives. The fest was an opportunity to look back on the transformation that has taken place over the last few years, to talk about a number of products and to make some important announcements that reinforce its position as a leader in the secure, sovereign Cloud.

These announcements were made on Thursday 6 February at 2:00 PM during a keynote session accessible via social networks and live streaming platforms.

You can watch all the Clever Cloud Fest content live and in replay on YouTube and LinkedIn.

Thursday 6 February 2025

YouTube

LinkedIn

Friday 7 February 2025

YouTube

LinkedIn

New PaaS Initiative: towards a faster, ever more secure platform

Three years ago, Clever Cloud began to reinvent itself. Under the impetus of the new management team, which has gradually expanded, the company has taken advantage of its continued growth to expand its teams, building on its two historical strengths: technological excellence and security by design.

It has strengthened its strategic independence, and now has its own infrastructure in three Paris data centres, in addition to the deployment zones it offers in France and around the world with its partners.

It has successfully obtained ISO 9001, ISO 27001:2022 and, more recently, HDS certification for hosting healthcare data. Clever Cloud is thus reinforcing its position as leader in PaaS in Europe for public authorities, businesses and major accounts.

2025 will be the year in which Clever Cloud implements its plan for a new PaaS. Faster, more complete and easier to use, whether you're a developer, a solopreneur or a group of teams, the new Clever Cloud will meet your needs even better.

The broad outlines of this project will be unveiled by CTO Steven Le Roux during a presentation. It will be rolled out throughout the year.

Clever AI: adapting AI to business needs

Clever Cloud has announced the launch of Clever AI, a new range of products designed to adapt the integration of artificial intelligence to business constraints. It is multi-vendor, multi-model, and adds control and functionality to all the solutions on the market. Clever AI can be used in serverless mode, in dedicated instances or on-premises.

Based on the Otoroshi open source API Gateway, and developed in collaboration with Cloud APIM, Clever AI represents a major evolution in Clever Cloud's service offering. It is positioned as a complete platform enabling companies to aggregate numerous LLMs (Large Language Models), to create a connection with an IAM tool and also to set up usage rules, blocking certain keywords in prompts, for example, and thus preventing the disclosure of confidential information. In practical terms, Clever AI aims to enable AI to be used securely and in line with business requirements.

This solution offers :

• Compatibility with numerous AI providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, DeepSeek, Gemini, Groq, x.AI, as well as European services such as Hugging Face, Lucie, Mistral, OVHcloud and Scaleway;
• Advanced features such as authentication, caching, logging, model selection and customisation, access to a personalised chat interface and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support;
• An administrator interface accessible via Console, API or CLI, making it easy for development teams to use and integrate with third-party tools;
• The ability to create custom prompt rules. This feature enables companies to effectively prevent the leakage of sensitive data when using AI models, and so define restrictions on the type of information that AI can process or generate, as well as customising AI interactions so that they comply with internal security policies;
• Integrated compliance and usage analysis tools to provide the traceability that the company needs to ensure the high level of monitoring required, but also to continue to ensure a certification policy.

‘With Clever AI, we offer our customers a sovereign, out-of-the-box solution for integrating AI into their business processes,’ says Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud. ‘Our platform enables businesses to quickly reap the benefits of AI while maintaining control over their data and processes.’

Clever AI is available in private alpha and for testing by Clever Cloud customers, marking an important step in the company's strategy to democratise access to AI technologies for businesses of all sizes. You can apply for early access before it goes public in a few weeks' time.

Clever Cloud unveils its FaaS

Clever Cloud is introducing its Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) solution, enabling developers to deploy and run individual functions without managing the underlying infrastructure, based on the Web Assembly Standard (WASM).

The exclusive WSR (Wasm Svm Runtime) technology is the result of several years' work by the Clever Cloud teams, who have developed a set of solutions for instant execution, as close as possible to the hardware layer, while remaining easy to use and open to various languages/runtimes.

What is FaaS?

Clever Functions is based on an event-driven architecture. Developers write functions that are triggered by specific events, such as :

• HTTP requests;
• Database modifications;
• Messages in a queue.

These functions are then deployed on a Cloud platform that automatically manages the allocation of the necessary resources.

The benefits of FaaS

FaaS brings cost benefits, allowing you to pay only for the time the function is used, and makes it easier to implement microservices. It can be used in a simplified way with all Clever Cloud solutions, including Clever AI.

Clever Functions is currently in private alpha. You can request early access before its gradual opening to all our customers.

Clever Cloud now offers a Kubernetes solution

Clever Cloud has its own orchestrator, designed to provide automated, optimised management of Cloud applications. At the same time, Kubernetes has established itself as a market standard that can be complex to implement at scale.

To meet our customers' expectations, we developed our own Kubernetes solution, with specific features to simplify long-term operational maintenance, incorporating Clever Cloud's expertise and DNA. To achieve this, our teams have developed a specific, compatible database that overcomes the major shortcomings of the Etcd component at the heart of Kubernetes deployments.

This technological approach means we can better meet our customers' needs, in terms of quality of service, functionality and scalability.

Kubernetes vs. the Clever Cloud orchestrator: a different approach

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestrator that automates the deployment, scaling and management of containerised applications.

Historically, Clever Cloud has been a software developer for the Cloud, and then became a hosting provider. The strength of our solution lies in the creation of a virtual machine (VM) orchestrator that enables a modular, automated and scalable architecture to be created, with very few adaptations required during application development.

The advantage of this solution is that each machine is partitioned, unlike container-based operation where isolation is not total. As part of the market is using Kubernetes, it was natural for us to respond to this demand. So we're now offering our customers a managed and hardened Kubernetes solution, offering the same level of security and fluid experience as our orchestrator.

A Kubernetes approach from Clever Cloud

Unlike traditional Kubernetes implementations, our solution integrates natively with the Clever Cloud ecosystem. This means:

• Simplified configuration optimised to meet customers' core needs ;
• Seamless integration with other Clever Cloud services, including our CI/CD, database management and security tools;
• Tailored scalability, leveraging our experience in automated infrastructure management.

‘We've always seen Kubernetes as a technology that can become complex to manage over the long term if not properly imagined and managed. But we also know that it has become an unavoidable market standard. So our approach has been to rethink Kubernetes to integrate it with our philosophy: make the infrastructure invisible so that developers can concentrate on what they do best, develop.’ Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud.

Conceived as part of the CollabNext project, this Kubernetes solution is available as a private alpha and will be deployed to a growing number of customers over the course of 2025. You can request early access before it is gradually rolled out to all our customers.

The Materia range is expanding

Materia: a serverless, distributed database

In 2024, Clever Cloud announced the launch of Materia: a set of distributed, serverless data storage solutions designed for interoperability, automatically adapting to the amount of data being processed, from zero to infinity.

Replicated in our three Paris data centres, it ensures high availability and maximum resilience. Based on the same technological foundation as Apple CloudKit and Snowflake, it is compatible with many existing protocols, making it easy to integrate into applications.

The first version to be presented to the public was Materia KV, a key-value database. Today, Clever Cloud is proud to announce Materia KV JSON and Materia TS.

Materia KV JSON: simplified access to JSON data

Materia KV JSON allows you to store and access JSON objects in a single command, enabling you to make direct queries on the keys/values it contains.

The commands in this feature are compatible with the Redis® protocol and can therefore be used with any client in this ecosystem, including Valkey. Support for Materia KV JSON is part of the Materia experience, and comes at no extra cost.

Why Materia KV JSON?

• Storage and manipulation of JSON data directly in applications hosted on Clever Cloud or other service providers, without lock-in;
• A resilient solution by design thanks to its replication. When Materia KV responds, your data has been written three times;
• Simple to use, thanks to its serverless approach, access is instantaneous and there is direct integration with the Clever Cloud environment.

Materia KV JSON allows developers to manage structured objects without complexity. This functionality is currently in private alpha access. You can request early access before it is gradually made available to all our customers.

Materia TS: storage and analysis of time series

With Materia TS, Clever Cloud introduces a Time Series data management engine, based on Warp10, designed for applications requiring efficient analysis of events over a given period.

Main use cases

• Monitoring and observability: storage and querying of logs, metrics and events.
• Financial analysis: monitoring market fluctuations and transactional data.
• IoT and sensors: management of data flows generated by connected objects.

Materia TS provides storage adapted to the reading and analysis of time-stamped data, facilitating queries and the visualisation of trends.

Materia TS is deployed for certain customers. You can request early access before Materia TS is gradually rolled out to all our customers.

Clever KMS: Manage and secure your secrets

The new KMS service offers an advanced password and secret management tool. Developed specifically to meet the needs of an institutional customer, this solution enables secrets and encryption keys to be managed, and is designed to protect sensitive data while remaining simple to use.

Integration with existing ecosystems is at the heart of its design. Clever KMS can be used with any tool compatible with the Vault client (Hashicorp). This is what enabled us to integrate easily with Otoroshi.

Fonctionnalités principales

• Secure storage of secrets, API keys and certificates;
• Native encryption to protect data in transit and at rest;
• Integration with Clever Cloud applications, without complex configuration.

With KMS, Clever Cloud meets the growing need for security and compliance, while simplifying the management of secrets for developers. It can be deployed in serverless mode, in dedicated instances or on-premises.

Clever KMS is deployed for certain customers. You can request early access before it is gradually rolled out to all our customers.

Clever Cloud and Otoroshi: new features for more secure and flexible API management

Clever Cloud today announced the integration of new features into its Otoroshi-based API Gateway-as-Service offering, making API management more secure and flexible for businesses.

Otoroshi is an open-source solution created by Mathieu Ancelin, co-founder of Cloud APIM, that makes it easier to manage, secure and monitor APIs and microservices. It offers authentication mechanisms (OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Biscuit, JWT), as well as fine-grained access management via API Keys and quotas.

Its routing engine enables load balancing, failover and the application of advanced rules such as circuit breakers. Finally, it protects services against various attacks (DDoS, brute force, injections) and provides real-time monitoring tools.

Advanced security features and simplified access management

Otoroshi instances deployed on Clever Cloud now include:

• Biscuit support, with a complete Biscuit Studio suite for generating, verifying, mitigating and managing the roles of these secure tokens, enabling decentralised verification integrated with your APIs and services;
• Simplified configuration of the Coraza Web Application Firewall (WAF). This mechanism strengthens security by filtering malicious requests and blocking intrusion attempts before they reach backend systems;
• Simplified configuration of routes, API tokens and access protection for Clever Cloud applications, in conjunction with Network Groups;
• Native Clever KMS integration for secrets management.

‘API management offers a whole range of potential services to be developed. We'll be unveiling them over time.’ explains Steven Le Roux, CTO.

Otoroshi is now available on Clever Cloud with its LLM extension, Biscuit Studio and support for Clever KMS. Simplified integrations are undergoing public testing and will be rolled out later this year, along with a serveress offering.

Keycloak-as-a-Service: a secure multi-instance offering

The complete identity and access management solution has been available since last year, developed in conjunction with Please Open IT. Clever Cloud is proud to announce the availability of its secure multi-instance mode, an exclusive feature made possible by the creation of Network Groups. Keycloak can now be deployed in the form of a cluster within Clever Cloud, with communication between instances taking place via a Network Group, our secure network based on Wireguard. Everything is automatic.

Designed to meet the most stringent security and compliance requirements, Keycloak offers advanced services such as single sign-on (SSO), automatic scalability and centralised identity management.

Key features of Keycloak-as-a-Service include:

• Seamless integration with existing applications;
• Easy creation and import of realms;
• Advanced authentication and authorisation features (OAuth 2.0, LDAP, SAML, OpenID Connect, etc.);
• Automatic scalability to suit all user volumes;
• Compliance with the most stringent security and confidentiality standards;
• Ongoing maintenance, offering a simplified managed solution.

‘With Keycloak-as-a-Service, we're making identity management considerably simpler for our customers,’ says Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud. ‘This solution enables businesses of all sizes to benefit from a high-level IAM, without the usual complexity of implementation and maintenance, all for a price that we wanted to be particularly attractive.’

Keycloak on Clever Cloud has just been upgraded to version 26.1.0 and will be available in its final version shortly, benefiting from all the work carried out by our teams and Please Open It during the beta phase. To find out more about the benefits of Keycloak-as-a-Service, a full demo is available for replay on Clever Cloud's YouTube channel here.

Network Group: a step forward in network management

Clever Cloud makes it possible to deploy applications and services that are independent of each other, but which may also need to communicate via dedicated channels. Some customers have also asked us to be able to access their services within a secure network from third-party instances or from their machine.

This is how we came up with Network Groups, based on Wireguard technology and compatible with this market standard.

Network Groups bring greater flexibility to the management of network environments. This solution makes it easier to segment and secure inter-application communications on Clever Cloud. It also enables Keycloak to be deployed in multi-instance mode, or to control access to applications when used in conjunction with Otoroshi, demonstrating the potential synergies between our products.

Network Groups are part of a drive to improve the user experience by simplifying network configuration while offering advanced options for the specific needs of each customer. This feature marks an important step towards a more modular and secure infrastructure.

Network Groups are available to all our customers in public beta and will be enhanced with new integrations and features over the coming months.

Databases : Even more advanced management

The Managed Databases product range, which provides access to a database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elastic, Redis®/Valkey, etc.), has also been enhanced.

Already equipped with a range of advanced features, such as automatic backups and on-demand configuration to suit requirements, the products in the database range now come with the ability to manage extensions automatically, enabling us to upgrade versions more quickly. Versions 16 and 17 of PostgreSQL are now available on Clever Cloud.

Our Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL offerings can be enhanced with extensions to order or after the fact, while benefiting from automatic migrations, with continuity of service for extensions too.

This feature enables us to adjust a set of extensions per database, and therefore per customer. The aim is to enable us to be more responsive while continuing to meet the sometimes specific needs of certain customers.

Clever Cloud unveils its Hypervisor-as-a-Service project

A few months ago, Clever Cloud announced a partnership with Vates, a French specialist in open source hypervisor solutions, to work on the creation of an on-demand Xen hypervisor solution for managing virtual machines (VMs). Today, we are proud to be able to present the first public demonstration of this project.

A response to companies' expectations in the face of market challenges

Since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, the virtualisation ecosystem has been going through a period of uncertainty. The sharp rise in prices, the withdrawal of certain traditional offerings and the increasing technological lock-in have prompted many businesses to look for alternative, more open and independent solutions.

But beyond this context, demand for Hypervisor-as-a-Service (HaaS) solutions is growing, particularly for open source solutions. Companies want to take back control of their technological destiny by migrating to more sovereign solutions, without having to manage the complexity of maintaining them in operational condition.

The first bricks

In practical terms, this means that Clever Cloud is able to :

• Show an initial demonstration of how the Xen hypervisor works;
• Present usage scenarios and gather feedback from the first testers before opening up the service more widely;
• Refine the technical set-up to ensure a smooth, accessible experience. This demonstration validates the principles of virtualisation tailored to the needs of businesses that want to retain control over their infrastructure, without the constraints imposed by a single supplier.

A more complete and resilient Cloud

This announcement is part of Clever Cloud's commitment to providing the most comprehensive offering possible, combining IaaS, PaaS and turnkey services, to support businesses in all their infrastructure needs.

‘The announcement of our partnership with Vates generated a great deal of interest, and we're delighted to be able to demonstrate the first concrete applications. This project is part of our drive to offer a more open and sovereign infrastructure. We want to offer businesses a reliable and economically viable alternative that gives them back control of their infrastructures without imposing dependency,’ says Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud.

This project continues to evolve, with adjustments and optimisations based on user feedback, before being made more widely available in the coming months.

Azimutt, Mailpace, Metabase: numerous tools, a single platform

2024 was an opportunity for Clever Cloud to strengthen its Marketplace offering. Facilitated by its turnkey add-on providers solution, it enables any customer to create solutions that can be deployed on Clever Cloud within their account and their organisations.

But we are working with a number of partners to extend this availability to all our customers. As we have done with Keycloak and Otoroshi, we have opened up access to our platform to Mailpace and Metabase as well as Azimutt.

Azimutt is a member of our Up! start-up support programme, and we are working to simplify its integration into our platform. The service is now focused on analysing and understanding databases, with alert management, to complement our managed database offering.

Deployed via a Clever Cloud gateway for our customers, Azimutt is available as a free version or via paid subscriptions directly within our platform.

Over the course of 2025, we will be strengthening these partnerships, as well as taking advantage of the synergies between these services, as we are already doing with Mailpace and Metabase, or Keycloak and Otoroshi, which are used within Clever AI.

FrankenPHP, mise, Redirection.io, uv: responding to change

As ecosystems evolve, so do the needs of developers. Over the last few years we've seen far-reaching changes in application tooling, whether through the proliferation of JavaScript runtimes, or the arrival of solutions that are turning usage on its head, such as the uv package manager for Python or FrankenPHP.

Clever Cloud has chosen to embrace these transformations by natively integrating these tools, whose use will be simplified from the first months of the year. You can already use the meta packager, uv, shown in our latest images, to manage your Python applications and packages, while FrankenPHP will be available in the form of a dedicated runtime.

This modern PHP server is designed to improve the performance and flexibility of PHP applications. It has been developed by Kevin Dunglas, known for his work on API Platform and his involvement in the PHP and Symfony ecosystems.

What sets FrankenPHP apart from other PHP servers such as Apache + mod_php, Nginx + PHP-FPM or Caddy, is that it relies on Go and Caddy to offer more efficient execution and simpler configuration. In particular, it enables:

• Native execution of PHP applications without the need for PHP-FPM;
• Advanced management of workers and scalability;
• Improved integration with modern technologies, such as WebSockets and asynchronous workers.

FrankenPHP aims to simplify the deployment of PHP applications while optimising their performance, in particular by reducing latency and improving response time. Clever Cloud has decided to integrate FrankenPHP to offer PHP developers a more powerful and easy-to-use environment. With this support, Clever Cloud users will be able to simply run their PHP applications directly on FrankenPHP, benefiting from its optimisations and ease of management.

But the tools don't stop at putting applications into production. We are also gradually integrating solutions from partners such as Redirection.io to make it easier for our customers to use them in production, with the integration of their subscription-based offering.

Demonstrations of these different solutions will be held throughout Clever Cloud fest.

Clever Cloud Africa: a strategic partnership for a sovereign Cloud in West Africa

Clever Cloud and DataConnect, a subsidiary of New Digital Africa (NDA), are joining forces to co-build the first stage of a secure, sovereign Cloud in Côte d'Ivoire. This collaboration between Clever Cloud, a French creator of deployment and hosting solutions in PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) mode, and the leading African provider of managed infrastructure services, marks an important step in the development of an autonomous digital ecosystem in West Africa. Already widely acclaimed by the Ivorian press, the actual launch of Clever Cloud Africa will take place in the second quarter of 2025.

This joint initiative, based on a shared vision between the two companies, aims to combine Clever Cloud's technological expertise with DataConnect's in-depth knowledge of African markets. The aim is to co-develop innovative Cloud solutions that meet the specific needs of businesses and public authorities in the region.

The partnership is based on several areas of collaboration:

• The co-creation of sovereign Cloud solutions tailored to local needs;
• Developing and training local IT talent;
• Strengthening the regional technology ecosystem;
• Supporting the digital transformation of organisations.

Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud, underlines the collaborative dimension of the project: ‘Through this partnership, our ambition is to contribute with our local partners to the emergence of talent and value in the regions. Côte d'Ivoire was an obvious choice for us to co-construct a sustainable value proposition for companies and public-sector players looking to build their strategic autonomy in West Africa.’

Cette collaboration, initiée en Côte d'Ivoire, a vocation à s'étendre progressivement à d'autres pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest et Centrale, en s'appuyant sur des partenariats locaux dans chaque territoire.

Le Clever Cloud Fest était l’occasion d’annoncer officiellement ce partenariat, en présence de Jean-Jacques N’Docho, Directeur Général Adjoint de NDA Group, qui a fait le déplacement depuis la Côte d'Ivoire.

Jeudi 6 février, en amont du Clever Cloud Fest, un petit-déjeuner dédié à l’international, organisé par la région des Pays de la Loire, fut l’occasion d’échanges entre la délégation ivoirienne et élus et chefs d’entreprises locaux.

Join us at the following events:

October 2024

ADN Ouest "Business and research: mission impossible?"

📅 1st October

📍 Nantes

Join Jean-Baptiste Piacentino and Carine Guillemet in Nantes for the seminar "Business and research: mission impossible?". Explore your research projects and ask your questions about funding.

Devoxx Morocco

📅 From 2 to 4 October 2024

📍 Marrakech

FrancoTech

📅 From 3 to 4 October 2024

📍 Paris

Join Florent Perreux, Ismaël Cissé and Jean-Baptiste Piacentino as he takes part in a roundtable discussion on AI at FrancoTech 2024. This event brings together more than 1,500 French-speaking players around the themes of AI, logistics and the energy transition.

5G professionnelle

📅 8 October 2024

📍 Paris

Come and meet Jean-Baptiste Piacentino and Sarah Medjek in Paris to find out about the advances and challenges of 5G, particularly in terms of cybersecurity, with real-life feedback.

Forum PHP

📅 From 10 to 11 October 2024

📍 Disneyland Paris, Marvel Hotel

Clever Cloud is a gold and platinum sponsor of this event. Come and discuss what's new in PHP with our team: Horacio Gonzalez, David Legrand, Sébastien Allemand, Florent Perreux, Ismaël Cissé, Sébastien Brunat and Carine Guillemet.

Volcamp

📅 From 10 to 11 October 2024

📍 Clermont-Ferrand

Join Rémi Collignon-Ducret and Manuel Luzarreta at this technology event in the heart of the Auvergne volcanoes. Clever Cloud is proud to be a Silver sponsor of this conference dedicated to IT enthusiasts.

Gitex Dubai

📅 From 14 to 18 October 2024

📍 Dubaï

Meet Quentin Adam and Erwan Rougeux at GITEX GLOBAL in Dubai, one of the world's largest trade shows dedicated to tech and AI. Come and discuss digital transformation with industry leaders, governments, startups and investors.

COBOL Webinar

📅 15 October 2024

Attend our webinar on 15 October at 11.30am hosted by Florent Perreux, Sales Director, and Fabrice Le Fessant, President of OcamlPro. Find out how to deploy your COBOL applications on the Clever Cloud with SuperBOL, with a live demonstration and practical advice.

P99

📅 From 23 to 24 October 2024

Don't miss the talk by Luc Lenôtre, Rust Software Engineer, "Writing a Kernel in Rust: Code Quality and Performance", at the P99 CONF. An event dedicated to performance optimisation for developers.

Choiseul Africa

📅 From 31 October to 1st November 2024

📍 Marrakech

Meet Quentin Adam and Erwan Rougeux at Choiseul Africa, an event on technological challenges and innovations in Africa. Around 800 decision-makers from Africa, Europe and the Gulf are meeting to discuss African development.

November 2024

UGAP SMART IT 2024

📅 7 November 2024

📍 Paris

Come along to UGAP SMART IT to discuss innovations in the IT sector. Meet the experts and discover the trends that are redefining the future of the industry.

ScalaIO

📅 From 7 to 8 November 2024

📍 Paris

ScalaIO, the event dedicated to Scala programming at EPITA, is an opportunity to meet other Scala enthusiasts. For two days, attend a variety of sessions with renowned speakers, organised by the Scala community.

Unlock your brain

📅 From 8 to 9 November 2024

📍 Brest

Join us at La Cantine Brest for this event and discover the latest trends in technology and innovation. Clever Cloud is proud to be a Bronze sponsor of this event. Talk to experts about the ideas that will shape the future of the sector.

Open Innovation Camp

📅 14 November 2024

📍 Rennes

Take part in Open Innovation Camp in Rennes, an event about collaboration between businesses and startups. Explore opportunities, exchange innovative ideas and forge partnerships to boost your growth.

Startup Weekend Nantes

📅 From 15 to 17 November 2024

📍 Nantes

December 2024

Imagine Summit

📅 5 December 2024

📍 Rennes

Come at the Imagine Summit in Rennes, a trade fair dedicated to innovation where Clever Cloud is a sponsor. Immerse yourself in the latest trends and innovations by talking to industry experts.

Meet Up Elastic Search

📅 From 11 to 12 December 2024

📍 Brest and Nantes

Attend the Elastic Search meetup in Brest and Nantes, hosted by David Pilato. It's the perfect opportunity to expand your knowledge and share your experiences.