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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
Read more: STACKIT – The German business cloudSTACKIT 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.
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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.