Replaces Amazon Web Services (AWS)
European alternatives to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
European clouds for servers, storage and Kubernetes
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Amazon Web Services is the cloud platform of Amazon, used at very large scale worldwide. Its catalogue runs from on-demand virtual machines and object storage through managed databases, networking, container and Kubernetes services, queues, serverless functions and a long tail of analytics and machine learning products. Teams build on it because almost any building block they need already exists as a managed service.
Concentration is the concern that brings organisations here: one supplier under US jurisdiction carrying the whole estate, with the CLOUD Act in the background and exit costs that grow with every proprietary service adopted. A European alternative to Amazon Web Services (AWS) puts your infrastructure with a provider governed by EU or EFTA law. OVHcloud and Scaleway offer broad platforms with compute, storage and Kubernetes, STACKIT and Exoscale serve business workloads, and UpCloud focuses on virtual machines.
European options 13
Our pick
OVHcloud
French public cloud with a broad service range
OVHcloud is a public cloud provider from France with a wide range of services. It covers the classics you would expect from a cloud platform: virtual servers for all kinds of workloads, object storage, managed databases and managed Kubernetes, so an entire application stack can run there.
France
UpCloud
Cloud computing platform from Finland
Finland
Scaleway
Cloud computing platform from France
France♻
STACKIT
Cloud computing platform from Germany
Germany
Exoscale
Cloud computing platform from Switzerland
Switzerland
gridscale
German cloud platform with servers across Europe
Germany♻
Elastx
OpenStack cloud platform from Sweden
Sweden♻
Cyso Cloud
OpenStack cloud platform from the Netherlands
Netherlands
Cyso Cloud Object Storage
S3 compatible object storage from the Netherlands
Netherlands
IONOS
German cloud platform for servers and storage
Germany♻
Seeweb
Cloud computing platform from Italy
Italy♻
T Cloud
OpenStack cloud platform from Germany
Germany♻
Aruba Cloud
Cloud and VPS hosting from Italy
ItalyQuestions
Can a European cloud replace all of AWS?
For the common building blocks, yes: OVHcloud, Scaleway and Exoscale cover virtual machines, object storage, managed databases and Kubernetes. The further you have gone into AWS specific managed services, the more of that logic you will need to rebuild, so start by mapping which services you actually depend on.
What about managed Kubernetes?
Managed Kubernetes is offered by several providers on this list, including OVHcloud, Scaleway and gridscale. Since your manifests are portable, the migration work usually sits in ingress, storage classes and identity rather than in the workloads.
Is there a European alternative for smaller workloads?
UpCloud, Elastx and Cyso Cloud are approachable for teams that mainly need reliable virtual machines and managed hosting rather than a hundred product pages. Ask each about support hours and contract terms for the size you are running.