Alt to:Amazon S3, AWS, AWS Elastic Beanstalk +6
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DEGermany
High-performance cloud servers and dedicated hosting with excellent price-performance ratio. Data centers in Germany and Finland.
Alt to:Alibaba Cloud, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services (AWS) +6
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FRFrance
Global cloud provider specializing in bare metal servers, hosted private cloud, and public cloud solutions with its own fiber-optic network.
Alt to:Alibaba Cloud, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services (AWS) +8
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FRFrance
A leading European cloud provider offering a full ecosystem of AI, compute, storage, and network services.
Alt to:Alibaba Cloud, Amazon EC2, Amazon SQS +8
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FIFinland
A Finnish European cloud infrastructure provider offering high-performance servers, MaxIOPS storage, and managed cloud services.
Alt to:Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS +5
Azure alternatives compared
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| Service | Headquarters | Data hosting | EU data residency | Low Cloud Act exposure | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clever Cloud | France | EU (any EU region) | Yes | Yes | No |
| Hetzner | Germany | Not stated | No | Yes | No |
| OVHcloud | France | Canada, EU (any EU region), Global / multi-region, United States | No | No | No |
| Scaleway | France | France, Netherlands, Poland | Yes | Yes | No |
| UpCloud | Finland | Finland, Singapore | No | Yes | No |
Frequently asked questions about Azure alternatives
What are the best EU alternatives to Azure?+
The EU Alternatives Directory lists 5 European alternatives to Azure, including Clever Cloud, Hetzner, OVHcloud. Each one is checked for European headquarters and data protection practices.
Why switch from Azure to an EU alternative?+
An EU-based alternative keeps your data under European jurisdiction and GDPR. It reduces exposure to the US Cloud Act and foreign data access laws.
Are EU alternatives to Azure as good?+
Many EU alternatives to Azure offer comparable features, with the added benefit of European data residency and digital sovereignty.
How are these Azure alternatives verified?+
We check the legal entity, country of headquarters and hosting locations. Only providers based in the EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland or Ukraine are listed.