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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
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: T Cloud Public – The cloud platform of Deutsche Telekom AG
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
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
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
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.