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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.

UpCloud

UpCloud is a European cloud provider headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. UpCloud are operating 15 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
ELASTX

ELASTX is a Swedish cloud provider operating three data centers located within the Stockholm metropolitan area.

Their service portfolio includes core Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings such as compute, storage, database, and networking solutions. In addition, ELASTX provides a managed Kubernetes service to support containerized applications.

What sets ELASTX apart is their commitment to delivering tailored, bespoke solutions in close collaboration with their clients.
Read more: ELASTX – The Swedish Cloud Provider
Delska

myDelska Cloud Platform provides a transparent self-service environment to deploy and manage virtual machines instantly. It serves as a streamlined alternative for those seeking a modern and transparent cloud experience outside of the VMware ecosystem.

With data centers in Latvia and Lithuania, Delska fills an important niche of enterprise-grade compute infrastructure in the Baltics.
Read more: Delska – Baltic infrastructure and IT services
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.