OVHcloud key facts
Last updated- Legal entity
- OVH SAS (Parent) / OVH US LLC (US Subsidiary)
- Headquarters
- France (FR)
- Ownership
- Part of OVHcloud (OVH Groupe SA)
- Founded
- 1999
- Data hosting
- Canada, EU (any EU region), Global / multi-region, United States
- Infrastructure
- Self-hosted (manufactures own servers and data centers)
- Deployment
- SaaS, Self-hosted
- Open source
- No
- US Cloud Act exposure
- Exposed
- Replaces
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, DigitalOcean, Linode
About OVHcloud
OVHcloud is a major European cloud provider that operates on a global scale, unique for its vertically integrated model where it builds its own servers and data centers. They offer a comprehensive suite of cloud services ranging from high-performance bare metal servers to managed public cloud environments and hosted private clouds based on VMware and Nutanix. The service focuses on providing high bandwidth (up to 100Tbps global network capacity) and integrated security like Anti-DDoS as standard. With 44 data centers across 4 continents, they cater to businesses of all sizes, from startups needing a sandbox VPS to enterprises requiring complex disaster recovery and data center migration solutions. Their 'Advance' and 'Scale' server ranges leverage modern AMD EPYC architectures and liquid cooling for high efficiency.
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