Clever Cloud key facts
Last updated- Legal entity
- Clever Cloud SAS
- Headquarters
- France (FR)
- Ownership
- Independent
- Data hosting
- EU (any EU region)
- Infrastructure
- Self-hosted
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Open source
- No
- US Cloud Act exposure
- Low (no US parent)
- Certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO 9001, HDS
- Replaces
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Google App Engine, Heroku, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure App Service
About Clever Cloud
Clever Cloud is a European Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider that automates the deployment, scaling, and maintenance of web applications and databases. It offers a managed environment where developers can deploy code via Git, with the platform handling the underlying infrastructure, security updates, and high availability. The service includes 'Cellar', an S3-compatible object storage solution, and 'Clever Grid' for GPU-accelerated workloads. As a European entity with no US subsidiary, the company emphasizes digital sovereignty and immunity from the US CLOUD Act, operating across multiple global data centers with a focus on French and European infrastructure.
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