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European Cloud Providers
There is a growing landscape of European cloud providers. All of them are offering basic IaaS services, such as VMs and managed databases. Differences are in the PaaS offering, in AI and in serverless services.
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OVHcloud
Read more: OVHcloud – European cloud with a worldwide presenceOVHcloud is a mature cloud provider with 43 data centers across 9 countries, including Canada and Singapore.
OVHcloud are offering public cloud services, including higher-level services, e.g. for data platform, web hosting packages and Hosted Private Cloud and a global CDN.
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STACKIT
Read more: STACKIT – The German business cloudSTACKIT is the newcomer, officially launched in 2024. STACKIT has very high momentum, with new services being added at a high pace.
STACKIT is a brand of Schwarz Digits, backed by the Schwarz group, the largest retail company in Europe, based in Germany.
STACKIT primarily targets business clients in the DACH region, and offers some unique features, such as Google Workplace.
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Cyso Cloud
Read more: Cyso Cloud – 100% Dutch and independentCyso Cloud is an OpenStack-based cloud provider based in the Netherlands.
The Cyso Cloud service portfolio includes core Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings such as compute, storage, a managed Kubernetes service EMK and a transactional email service.
With its data centres in North Holland and in Frankfurt, Cyso Cloud can fulfill geo-redundancy requirements. The NEN 7510 certification for the Dutch healthcare sector can make Cyso Cloud a good choice for respective Dutch companies.
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Open Telekom CloudRead more: Open Telekom Cloud – The cloud platform of Deutsche Telekom AGOpen Telekom Cloud is operated by Deutsche Telekom AG.
Open Telekom Cloud offers a range of IaaS cloud services. Furthermore, they are offering higher-level services including managed Kubernetes, big data services, managed AI and serverless functions.
Deutsche Telekom AG is also operating a GCP instance.
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IONOSRead more: IONOS – Future-proof cloud infrastructure from GermanyIONOS is a German hosting and domain provider that is offering more and more cloud computing products.
The company was formerly known as 1&1 Internet. It was rebranded to reflect the development from a pure hosting provider to a service provider with a broad portfolio.
The public cloud service encompasses the typical building blocks around VPCs, managed database, managed Kubernetes, etc.
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ScalewayRead more: Scaleway – Europe’s empowering cloud providerScaleway is cloud provider with a good set of higher-level services, such as managed AI and serverless services services, e.g. a serverless container service and a serverless database.
With a history going back to 1999, Scaleway has a proven track record and has one of the most advanced cloud service portfolios in the European landscape.
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UpCloud
Read more: UpCloud – Global Cloud, European ExcellenceUpCloud is a European cloud provider headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. UpCloud are operating 13 data centres across 4 continents.
The service portfolio of UpCloud is not the broadest, focusing on the basic cloud primitives such as managed Kubernetes, storage and managed databases, but developer tooling around UpCloud is rich and covers all the typical developer use cases.
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Exoscale
Read more: Exoscale – a solid European cloud hosting alternativeExoscale offer a full range of IaaS services. Especially noteworthy are the DBaaS services for managed Apache Kafka, managed OpenSearch and managed Grafana.
Exoscale are operating 7 data centers across Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Croatia and Bulgaria.
Exoscale is owned by A1, the Austrian telecommunication company.
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ELASTX
Read more: ELASTX – The Swedish Cloud ProviderELASTX is a Swedish cloud provider operating three data centers located within the Stockholm metropolitan area.
Their service portfolio includes core Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings such as compute, storage, database, and networking solutions. In addition, ELASTX provides a managed Kubernetes service to support containerized applications.
What sets ELASTX apart is their commitment to delivering tailored, bespoke solutions in close collaboration with their clients.
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Nine
Read more: Nine – Swiss-made Cloud MasteryNine is an application platform by Nine Internet Solutions in Switzerland. While Nine Internet Solutions offers classic colocation and managed hosting solutions, the distinctive product is the Deploio application engine.
Nine is currently brought to the world from two data centers in the Zürich region in Switzerland.