What can replace Google Cloud.
8 European products that cover Google Cloud fully or in part. None of them is a clone — where something is missing, it says so.
8 entries
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
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
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
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