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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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STACKIT

STACKIT is a 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
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

Headlines about European Cloud & AI

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

What is the EU’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework?
The European Commission introduced a binding Cloud Sovereignty Framework in October 2025 to define and assess digital sovereignty of cloud services 
Why I am bullish on STACKIT of Schwarz Digits
STACKIT by Schwarz Digits is well positioned to play an important role in Europe’s cloud market with scale, vision, and innovation.
Three billion dollars: Berlin startup unicorn triples valuation – in just eight months
AI‑specialist Parloa raised €350 million, pushing its post‑money valuation to €3 billion. Berlin’s unicorn ecosystem now counts 23 high‑growth companies.
AI in Germany: Schwarz Group expands its influence over Aleph Alpha
The Schwarz Group plans to acquire Bosch Ventures’ shareholding in Aleph Alpha, further consolidating its influence over the German AI firm.
Au revoir Microsoft Teams, Zoom
France will replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with a domestically‑built video‑conferencing service called Visio by 2027 over security concerns.
Sexualized image generation: EU initiates proceedings against the Grok function
The European Commission has opened formal proceedings under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to assess Grok’s compliance after millions of sexualized images.