Category
Cloud
Hosting, compute and CDN providers
European cloud and hosting providers have quietly become a serious option. The companies in this category run their own data centres across Germany, France, Finland, Switzerland and beyond. They cover compute, storage, managed databases and CDN services. The draw over the US hyperscalers comes down to two things. Your data and contracts stay under EU law rather than within reach of the CLOUD Act, and several providers are markedly cheaper for raw compute and bandwidth. For European teams with data-residency requirements, this is where to start.
6 European tools
Bunny.net
SloveniaPaid
SloveniaFast CDN, edge storage and DNS, built by ex-Cloudflare folks in Slovenia.
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Exoscale
SwitzerlandPaid
SwitzerlandSwiss cloud infrastructure built for developers, with data centres in Europe and a clean pay-as-you-go model.
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Hetzner
GermanyPaid
GermanyBare-metal and cloud servers from Germany at honest, transparent prices.
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OVHcloud
FrancePaid
FranceFrench cloud provider with its own global data center infrastructure, running everything from bare metal to managed Kubernetes.
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Scaleway
FrancePaidEuropean cloud with bare-metal, GPU and serverless services.
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UpCloud
FinlandPaid
FinlandFinnish cloud infrastructure provider with a storage system that claims faster speeds than standard NVMe
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