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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 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.
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
Open Telekom Cloud

Open 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.
Read more: Open Telekom Cloud – 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
UpCloud

UpCloud 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.
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