What can replace Microsoft Azure.
9 European products that cover Microsoft Azure fully or in part. None of them is a clone — where something is missing, it says so.
9 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
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
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
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
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
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