June 29 (Reuters) - French cloud services provider OVHcloud slightly beat expectations for third-quarter sales on Thursday, helped by what it termed "strong momentum" in its cloud businesses.

The company's revenue was 228 million euros ($248 million) in the three months to May 31, just ahead of analysts' forecast of 227.8 million euros in a company-provided poll. ($1 = 0.9185 euros) (Reporting by Olivier Sorgho and Nathan Vifflin in Gdansk; Editing by Milla Nissi)