European Alternatives to AWS
Amazon Web Services is the world's largest cloud infrastructure provider, offering compute, storage, databases, machine learning and hundreds of managed services used by organizations of all sizes. AWS operates data centers globally, including in Europe. For businesses that require cloud infrastructure with full EU data sovereignty, European ownership and alignment with GDPR and EU data protection frameworks, several European cloud providers offer robust, scalable infrastructure.
Best European alternatives to AWS for cloud computing, storage and managed infrastructure
OVHcloud, headquartered in France, is one of Europe's largest cloud providers with a global network of data centers and a full range of compute, storage and managed services. Scaleway, also French, offers developer-friendly cloud infrastructure with strong Kubernetes and serverless capabilities. Hetzner, based in Germany, provides high-performance dedicated servers and cloud instances at competitive prices. IONOS, also German, combines cloud hosting with domain and web services for businesses of all sizes. Clever Cloud offers a European PaaS with automatic scaling and git-based deployment. Exoscale, from Switzerland, focuses on simple, sovereign cloud infrastructure.
OVHcloud
French publicly traded cloud provider with managed databases, S3-compatible storage, and 43 data centers across four continents.
Scaleway
French cloud provider (Iliad Group) with managed databases for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ClickHouse, and Kafka plus S3 storage.
Hetzner
German founder-owned hosting company with S3-compatible object storage, backup Storage Boxes, and aggressively priced cloud infrastructure.
IONOS
German publicly traded cloud and hosting provider with managed databases, S3 storage, and 6.3 million customer contracts.
Infomaniak kSuite
Swiss-hosted collaboration suite with email, cloud storage, document editing, team chat, and video conferencing.
Clever Cloud
French PaaS provider automating application deployment on European sovereign infrastructure with per-second billing.
Exoscale
Swiss cloud platform (A1 Telekom Austria Group) with managed databases powered by Aiven across eight European data centers.
Open Telekom Cloud
Deutsche Telekom's enterprise public cloud platform operating from owned twin-core data centers in Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
UpCloud
Finnish cloud provider operating 15 data centers globally with a 99.999% SLA and zero-cost egress policy.
STACKIT
German sovereign cloud platform of Schwarz Group (Lidl/Kaufland) with confidential computing and GPU instances.
3DS Outscale
French sovereign cloud subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, first provider to achieve SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification.
Cleura
Swedish OpenStack-based cloud provider with compliant cloud for regulated industries, part of Iver Group.
Aruba Cloud
Italian cloud provider with five owned data center campuses and over 130,000 managed servers serving 16 million users.
Leaseweb CDN
Dutch infrastructure provider operating a Multi-CDN platform with 295+ combined PoPs and 80,000+ managed servers.
Gigas
Spanish publicly traded cloud provider operating nine data centers across Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Latin America.
