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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.

OVHcloud

OVHcloud 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.
Read more: OVHcloud – European cloud with a worldwide presence
STACKIT

STACKIT is the public cloud brand of Schwarz Digits, backed by the Schwarz group, the largest retail company in Europe, based in Germany.

STACKIT has very high momentum, with new services being added at a high pace. The service portfolio and partnerships, e.g. with ServiceNow and Salesforce for Tableau, make STACKIT an attractive choice for enterprises in the DACH region.
Read more: STACKIT – The German business cloud
Cyso Cloud

Cyso 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.
Read more: Cyso Cloud – 100% Dutch and independent
T Cloud Public

T Cloud Public is a cloud computing service operated by Deutsche Telekom AG, formerly known as Open Telekom Cloud.

T Cloud Public has a very broad portfolio of cloud services, from a complete IaaS range over higher-level services such as managed Kubernetes and serverless functions up to data processing and AI services. The cloud product range is one of the most comprehensive ones in Europe.

T Cloud Public has data centres in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Read more: T Cloud Public – The cloud platform of Deutsche Telekom AG
IONOS

IONOS 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.
Read more: IONOS – Future-proof cloud infrastructure from Germany
Scaleway

Scaleway 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.
Read more: Scaleway – Europe’s empowering cloud provider
UpCloud

UpCloud is a European cloud provider headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. UpCloud are operating 15 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.
Read more: UpCloud – Global Cloud, European Excellence
Exoscale

Exoscale 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.
Read more: Exoscale – a solid European cloud hosting alternative
ELASTX

ELASTX 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.
Read more: ELASTX – The Swedish Cloud Provider
Nine

Nine 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.
Read more: Nine – Swiss-made Cloud Mastery
Atlas Cloud

Atlas was founded to solve a critical gap in Iceland’s tech ecosystem: the lack of locally-hosted, sovereign cloud infrastructure. Atlas comes out of the Startup SuperNova accelerator and is operated from green Icelandic data centers.

The Atlas Cloud is built based on CloudStack, with the service portfolio currently being built up. Basic primitives such as VMs, and storage are in place.
Read more: Atlas – Your Icelandic Cloud Provider
Scalingo

Scalingo is a European cloud provider offering both Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions.

Founded in France, the company delivers a fully managed platform that enables organizations to deploy, operate, and scale applications and data without managing underlying infrastructure.
Read more: Scalingo – Deploy at lightning speed
Delska

myDelska Cloud Platform provides a transparent self-service environment to deploy and manage virtual machines instantly. It serves as a streamlined alternative for those seeking a modern and transparent cloud experience outside of the VMware ecosystem.

With data centers in Latvia and Lithuania, Delska fills an important niche of enterprise-grade compute infrastructure in the Baltics.
Read more: Delska – Baltic infrastructure and IT services
Aruba

Aruba Cloud is Italy’s primary provider of cloud services, data centers, web hosting, email services, domain registration services.

Since 2016, Aruba has been the Official Registry for the .cloud TLD.

There are more companies under the Aruba Group umbrella, for example the certificate authority Actalis.
Read more: Aruba Cloud – The European Cloud, certified and AI-ready
Hikube

Hikube is the Kubernetes-native private cloud platform built and operated by Hidora SA, a Geneva-based hosting provider.

Hikube’s whole infrastructure compute, storage and network is hosted exclusively in Switzerland, across three physically separate data centres in Geneva, the canton of Vaud (Gland) and Lucerne, with data synchronously replicated between all three sites. All sites are powered by renewable (hydro) power.
Read more: Hikube (by Hidora) – A 100% Swiss sovereign cloud

Headlines about European Cloud & AI

Latest news and opinion pieces about what is going on in the European cloud, AI and tech scene.

Cohere & Aleph Alpha Merge to Create Transatlantic Sovereign AI Giant
Cohere and Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive business combination agreement to create the first transatlantic sovereign AI solution.
One Week, Four Launches: European AI Just Had A Good Week
Within a single week four of Europe’s most prominent AI labs each shipped a frontier-class model in their respective category.
Four Takeaways from the Cloud X Summit by STACKIT
New partnerships and progress on security clearance strengthen STACKIT’s momentum, a Manager Magazin “failure” story doesn’t survive a closer read, users are asking for better IAM and networking, and the summit’s optimism was a welcome break.
Alibaba Cloud expands in Europe
Alibaba Cloud is establishing its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands and expand existing data centers.
Let’s meet at Cloud X Summit 2026
I am going to be at Cloud X Summit of STACKIT 2026 in Wiesbaden on Thursday, 17 September. Let’s meet!
Deutsche Telekom appoints former AWS manager to its board as CTO
Deutsche Telekom has appointed a senior AWS manager to its board as the new CTO, underscoring the strategic importance of cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

European Cloud Providers

OVHcloud

STACKIT

Cyso Cloud

T Cloud Public

IONOS

Scaleway

UpCloud

Exoscale

ELASTX

Nine

Atlas Cloud

Scalingo

Delska

Aruba

Hikube

Headlines about European Cloud & AI