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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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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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Scaleway
Read more: Scaleway – Europe’s empowering cloud providerScaleway 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.
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ELASTX
Read more: ELASTX – The Swedish Cloud ProviderELASTX 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.
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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.