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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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Open Telekom Cloud
Read 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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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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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.