Cloud & data centre, in European hands.
14 products in this category. What is judged is the jurisdiction of the parent company, not where the servers stand.
14 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
Delos CloudDE
An SAP subsidiary building a walled-off cloud for German public administration, operated exclusively by German staff.
EU / EEAEmergingEffort: LargeCatchTechnically it runs on licensed Microsoft Azure technology. The sovereignty comes from the contract and the operating model, not from independent technology — a distinction that matters under sanctions.
delos.cloud Replaces: Microsoft Azure
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
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
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
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Data as of August 2026