Hetzner
Hetzner is a German hosting and cloud provider known for excellent price-performance. It runs its own data centers in Germany and Finland and is a popular alternative to AWS and DigitalOcean.
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European alternatives to Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the largest cloud provider in the world. It is the default choice for many teams, but it is a US provider — which matters for data residency, the CLOUD Act and long-term cost control.
The services below are European alternatives to Amazon Web Services: each one is run by a company headquartered in the EU, the EEA or the EFTA, and we describe its hosting and open-source status honestly through tags.
Scaleway
Scaleway is a French cloud provider offering a complete ecosystem from virtual instances and Kubernetes to serverless and AI inference, all hosted in European data centers.
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OVHcloud
OVHcloud is Europe's largest cloud provider, headquartered in France. It offers everything from web hosting and dedicated servers to a full public cloud platform with strong data sovereignty guarantees.
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UpCloud
UpCloud is a Finnish cloud provider known for very fast storage technology and a developer-friendly platform, with data centers across Europe and beyond.
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Exoscale
Swiss cloud platform offering virtual machines, Kubernetes, object storage and managed databases across European data centres.
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gridscale
German infrastructure-as-a-service platform with a visual control panel for spinning up servers, storage and networks in minutes.
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Elastx
Swedish OpenStack cloud running on green power, with managed Kubernetes and databases for compliance-conscious teams.
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Seeweb
Italian cloud provider offering cloud servers, GPU instances, Kubernetes and object storage from its own European data centres.
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STACKIT
Sovereign German business cloud from the Schwarz Group, with data centres in Germany and Austria built for European compliance.
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Open Telekom Cloud
Deutsche Telekom's OpenStack-based public cloud, operated under German data protection from data centres in Germany and the Netherlands.
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Aruba Cloud
Cloud division of Italy's largest hosting group, offering cloud servers, Kubernetes and storage across its own European data centres.
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