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.
Google Cloud Platform is Google’s infrastructure offering. Technically excellent, but like AWS and Azure it is a US hyperscaler, with the jurisdictional and lock-in concerns that come with that.
The services below are European alternatives to Google Cloud: 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.
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.
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.
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.
UpCloud is a Finnish cloud provider known for very fast storage technology and a developer-friendly platform, with data centers across Europe and beyond.
Swiss cloud platform offering virtual machines, Kubernetes, object storage and managed databases across European data centres.
German infrastructure-as-a-service platform with a visual control panel for spinning up servers, storage and networks in minutes.
Swedish OpenStack cloud running on green power, with managed Kubernetes and databases for compliance-conscious teams.
Italian cloud provider offering cloud servers, GPU instances, Kubernetes and object storage from its own European data centres.
Sovereign German business cloud from the Schwarz Group, with data centres in Germany and Austria built for European compliance.
Deutsche Telekom's OpenStack-based public cloud, operated under German data protection from data centres in Germany and the Netherlands.
Cloud division of Italy's largest hosting group, offering cloud servers, Kubernetes and storage across its own European data centres.
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