EU alternatives to Chinese cloud providers

9 non-Chinese options for buyers in the European Union.

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OVHcloud
France
Alternative to Chinese cloud providers

European cloud provider: compute, storage, managed Kubernetes and databases

  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ EU-based vendor
  • ✓ EU data residency
Scaleway
France
Alternative to Chinese cloud providers

European cloud with regions in Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Milan

  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ EU-based vendor
  • ✓ EU data residency
Hetzner Cloud
Germany
Alternative to Chinese cloud providers

Low-cost cloud servers, storage and networking from German and Finnish data centres

  • Low-cost compute
  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ EU-based vendor
IONOS Cloud
Germany
Alternative to Chinese cloud providers

German sovereign IaaS: compute engine, managed Kubernetes, object storage

  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ EU-based vendor
  • ✓ EU data residency
STACKIT
Germany
Alternative to Chinese cloud providers

Sovereign European cloud of the Schwarz Group; customer data hosted only in Europe

  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ EU-based vendor
  • ✓ EU data residency
Amazon Web Services
United States
Alternative to Chinese cloud providers

Hyperscale cloud; EU buyers can use the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Brandenburg)

  • EU sovereign cloud
  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ EU data residency
Microsoft Azure
United States
Alternative to Chinese cloud providers

Hyperscale cloud; EU Data Boundary keeps customer data in EU/EFTA

  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ EU data residency
Google Cloud
United States
Alternative to Chinese cloud providers

Hyperscale cloud; EU Data Boundary and sovereign-control packages for EU workloads

  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ EU data residency
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
United States
Alternative to Chinese cloud providers

Oracle public cloud; separate EU Sovereign Cloud regions in Frankfurt and Madrid

  • EU sovereign regions
  • ✓ Available in EU
  • ✓ EU data residency