What can replace AWS.
15 European products that cover AWS fully or in part. None of them is a clone — where something is missing, it says so.
15 entries
Aruba CloudIT
An Italian provider with its own data centres, including a large campus near Bergamo with its own power generation.
EU / EEASolidEffort: Mediumwww.arubacloud.com Replaces: AWS · Microsoft Azure
CleuraSE
A Swedish OpenStack cloud, openly documented, with sites in Sweden, Germany and the Czech Republic.
EU / EEASolidEffort: MediumOpen sourcecleura.com Replaces: AWS · Microsoft Azure
CubbitIT
S3-compatible object storage that spreads encrypted shards across several European sites — geo-redundancy without a second contract.
EU / EEAEmergingEffort: Smallwww.cubbit.io Replaces: AWS
ExoscaleCH
A Swiss IaaS provider with data centres in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Bulgaria; part of the A1 group.
SwitzerlandSolidEffort: Mediumwww.exoscale.com Replaces: AWS · Google Cloud
HetznerDE
Servers, storage and a lean cloud out of Nuremberg, Falkenstein and Helsinki — at prices the hyperscalers are measured against.
EU / EEAProvenEffort: MediumCatchNothing like the managed-service catalogue of AWS. If you use Lambda, DynamoDB and SQS today, here you build it yourself or assemble open-source parts.
www.hetzner.com Replaces: AWS · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud
IONOS CloudDE
German provider running its own data centres, with S3-compatible object storage, managed Kubernetes and a BSI C5 attestation.
EU / EEAProvenEffort: MediumCatchA smaller service catalogue and a thinner partner ecosystem than the hyperscalers; specialist services usually mean building your own.
cloud.ionos.de Replaces: AWS · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud
LeasewebNL
A Dutch host for dedicated servers and colocation, a sound base layer under a platform you run yourself.
EU / EEAProvenEffort: MediumCatchAlso runs sites in the US and Asia. Check which group entity is actually your counterparty in the contract.
www.leaseweb.com Replaces: AWS
NebiusNL
GPU capacity in European data centres, for training and serving your own models at scale.
EU / EEASolidEffort: MediumCatchEmerged from the restructuring of Yandex N.V. Headquarters and operations are now in Amsterdam — check the ownership structure if that matters to you.
nebius.com Replaces: AWS · Google Cloud
Open Telekom CloudDE
An OpenStack cloud operated by T-Systems in Germany and the Netherlands, with an unusually deep certification list.
EU / EEAProvenEffort: MediumCatchThe platform technology comes from Huawei. Operations, contract and data sit with T-Systems — the software supply chain does not sit in Europe.
open-telekom-cloud.com Replaces: AWS · Microsoft Azure
OVHcloudFR
Europe's largest cloud provider, listed in Paris, with its own hardware, its own data centres and a broad IaaS catalogue.
EU / EEAProvenEffort: MediumCatchThe 2021 Strasbourg fire cost customers without cross-site backups their data. Geo-redundancy here is a line item you order, not a default.
www.ovhcloud.com Replaces: AWS · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud
ScalewayFR
The cloud arm of France's Iliad group, with a clean API, managed Kubernetes, serverless functions and its own AI endpoints.
EU / EEASolidEffort: Mediumwww.scaleway.com Replaces: AWS · Google Cloud
STACKITDE
The Schwarz Group's cloud, run only from German and Austrian data centres, built out of Lidl's and Kaufland's own needs.
EU / EEASolidEffort: MediumCatchYoung. The catalogue grows fast, but niches you have taken for granted on AWS for a decade are still missing.
www.stackit.de Replaces: Microsoft Azure · AWS
SUSE / RancherDE
The Nuremberg Linux and Kubernetes vendor: distribution, container platform and support out of Europe rather than Raleigh or Redmond.
EU / EEAProvenEffort: LargeOpen sourceSelf-hostablewww.suse.com Replaces: Red Hat OpenShift · AWS · Microsoft Azure
SysElevenDE
A Berlin provider with managed Kubernetes and OpenStack, focused on operations with a service level rather than self-service.
EU / EEASolidEffort: Mediumwww.syseleven.de Replaces: AWS · Google Cloud
UpCloudFI
A Finnish provider known for very fast block storage and a lean, well-documented API.
EU / EEASolidEffort: Mediumupcloud.com Replaces: AWS · Google Cloud
Every field, filter and catch lives in the full directory. Not a recommendation and not a review. A list with evidence, so you can draw up a shortlist. Ownership and headquarters change — verify whatever matters to you before you sign.
Data as of August 2026