SocGen Taps Amazon, Microsoft for Cloud as Banks Target Costs

  • French bank aims to start moving data to public clouds by June
  • More banks looking to cloud to lower costs, providers say

The headquarters of Societe Generale SA stand in Paris.

Photographer: Balint Porneczi/Bloomberg
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Societe Generale SA is embracing the cloud.

The Paris-based bank is working with Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to become one of the first large European banks to adopt cloud computing for the bulk of its operations.