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European Cloud Infrastructure & Object Storage Alternatives
Cloud servers, S3-compatible object storage and cloud platforms from European companies, as alternatives to AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Quick answer: There are 34 European alternatives in Cloud Infrastructure & Object Storage from 12 countries. 1 has a free plan.
34 European alternativesSee the shortlist
1 Free Options
12 Countries
Cloud Infrastructure & Object Storage alternatives at a glance
| Product | Country | Pricing | Free plan | Open source | Self-host | Replaces |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elastx | 🇸🇪Sweden | Contact for pricing | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | |
| Clouding | 🇪🇸Spain | Freemium | Not verified | No | No | |
| netcup | 🇩🇪Germany | Paid | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | AWS |
| gridscale | 🇩🇪Germany | Paid | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | AWS |
| Scaleway | 🇫🇷France | Freemium | No | No | No | |
| Hetzner | 🇩🇪Germany | Paid | No | No | No | |
| Aruba Cloud | 🇮🇹Italy | Pay per use | No | No | No | AWS |
| Hetzner Object Storage | 🇩🇪Germany | Paid | No | No | No | AWS |
| OVHcloud Object Storage | 🇫🇷France | Paid | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | AWS |
| Infomaniak Public Cloud | 🇨🇭Switzerland | Subscription | No | No | No | AWS |
| Scaleway Object Storage | 🇫🇷France | Paid | No | No | No | AWS |
| Tilaa | 🇳🇱Netherlands | Paid | Not verified | Not verified | No |
A dash means we have not verified that attribute. Details and sources are on each product page.
What actually separates these cloud providers
Do you need object storage, servers or a whole platform?
Many listings here are S3-compatible object storage, which applications, backup tools and Kubernetes clusters write to through the S3 API: Hetzner Object Storage, Impossible Cloud, Leafcloud, Intercolo, Cyso Cloud, Scaleway and UpCloud Object Storage, with S3 storage also offered by OVHcloud, Aruba Cloud, cloudscale and Infomaniak Public Cloud. The rest rent out servers or whole platforms. Managed Kubernetes is listed by OVHcloud, STACKIT, gridscale, Infomaniak Public Cloud, Elastx, Aruba Cloud, Seeweb and UpCloud, and GPU servers by AlphaVPS, Aruba Cloud, Elastx, gridscale, Infomaniak Public Cloud and Seeweb.
Sources: Hetzner Object Storage, Impossible Cloud: pricing, Leafcloud Object Storage, Intercolo Object Storage, Cyso Cloud Object Storage, OVHcloud, STACKIT, gridscale, Infomaniak Public Cloud: prices, Elastx, AlphaVPS
What does it cost to move data out?
Egress is the traffic that leaves the provider's network. UpCloud says outbound data transfers are free. Hetzner Object Storage includes 1 TB of storage and 1 TB of egress in its monthly base price, and Intercolo includes 1 TB of outgoing traffic per month with each TB of storage booked. Tilaa includes unlimited traffic with its servers.
Sources: UpCloud, Hetzner Object Storage, Intercolo Object Storage, Tilaa
What does storage cost, and can you try it first?
Prices are quoted in different units, so compare them on your own volume: Leafcloud charges €0.02 per GB per month, Impossible Cloud €7.99 per TB per month on pay-as-you-go, Intercolo starts from €2.49 per TB and Cyso Cloud lists €0.055 per GB. Most let you test first: Impossible Cloud with a free 30-day trial, Intercolo with a month and 1 TB free, UpCloud with €500 of credits for 30 days, Infomaniak Public Cloud with CHF 300 of credits to use within three months, and T Cloud Public with a €250 starting credit.
Sources: Leafcloud Object Storage, Impossible Cloud: pricing, Intercolo Object Storage, Cyso Cloud: pricing, UpCloud, Infomaniak Public Cloud, T Cloud Public: prices
Who is behind them?
Several belong to larger groups. STACKIT is the cloud provider of Schwarz Digits, the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Gruppe. gridscale was acquired by OVHcloud in August 2023. T Cloud Public, known until January 2026 as Open Telekom Cloud, is run by T-Systems International. netcup has been part of the Anexia group since 2016. Others are long-established hosts: Hetzner was founded in 1997, Seeweb in 1998 and UpCloud in 2011.
Sources: STACKIT: company profile, gridscale: about us, T Cloud Public: imprint, netcup: about, Hetzner: about us, Seeweb: about, UpCloud: about
Checked in September 2026 against the sources linked under each answer.
Notable
- Infrastructure as a service with OpenStack
- Container as a service: Elastx manages your Kubernetes
- Platform as a service based on Virtuozzo
Pick Elastx if you want GPUs offered within both OpenStack IaaS and Kubernetes CaaS.(our assessment)
Checked against Elastx's se page, security page and about page.
gridscale
🇩🇪gridscale
Replaces
paid
Notable
- Easy deployment and scaling of VMs for any workload
- Provisioning of AMD GPUs for ML applications without complicated setup processes
- Cloud portfolio of compute, object storage, managed Kubernetes, managed database, cloud load balancer and GPU instances
Pricing: from €99.00 per month (pricing page)
Pick gridscale if you want to book resources on demand, billed per minute.(our assessment)
Checked against gridscale's agb page, homepage, pricing page, legal notice and about page.
Hetzner
🇩🇪Hetzner
paid
Notable
- Storage Share to store and share files and access data at any time from any place
- Storage Boxes accessible from everywhere at any time via PC, smartphone and tablet
- Managed servers where the technical side is taken care of
Checked against Hetzner's homepage, about page and legal notice.
Aruba Cloud
🇮🇹Aruba S.p.A.
Replaces
pay-per-use
Notable
- S3 compatible object storage for large volumes of data in the cloud, with triple replication on separate disks
- Backup for Microsoft 365 uses Veeam software to make an immutable replication of business critical data in Aruba data centers
- Management console that schedules automatic backups for physical or virtual servers
Pick Aruba Cloud if you want virtual machines, firewalls and networks managed via VMware Cloud Director.(our assessment)
Checked against Aruba Cloud's homepage, data backup microsoft 365 page and pricing page.
Hetzner Object Storage
🇩🇪Hetzner
Replaces
paid
Notable
- Locks objects against deletion or overwriting
- Pre-signed URLs for time-limited access
- Object versioning saves and manages previous versions
Where it falls short
- Unused included quota cannot be carried over; it expires at the end of the month. source
- Up to 100 buckets; each bucket can store up to 100 TB of data and up to 50 million objects
- The monthly base price includes 1 TB of storage and 1 TB of egress traffic
Pick Hetzner Object Storage if you want a monthly base price that includes 1 TB storage and 1 TB egress.(our assessment)
Checked against Hetzner Object Storage's object storage page and legal notice.
Infomaniak Public Cloud
🇨🇭Infomaniak
Replaces
subscription
Notable
- S3-compatible Swift object storage to store and access resources, files and metadata
- High-availability block storage powered by Ceph, on latest-generation SSD PCIe NVMe, with 3 replicas
- Instances with a dedicated nVidia A100, L40S, L4, A2 or T4 GPU
Where it falls short
- No quantity discounts are offered. source
- Bandwidth is free, except for object storage, which is invoiced above 10 TB of consumed bandwidth
Pick Infomaniak Public Cloud if you want Heat templates with vertical and horizontal autoscaling.(our assessment)
Checked against Infomaniak Public Cloud's public cloud page, pricing page, legal notice and about page.
Scaleway Object Storage
🇫🇷Scaleway
Replaces
paid
Notable
- Multi-AZ resilient object storage that ensures high availability for your data
- Scaleway Glacier is a cold storage class for long-term object storage, suited to deep archived data
Checked against Scaleway Object Storage's object storage page.
Tilaa
🇳🇱Tilaa
paid
Notable
- Deploys Linux or Windows servers, with unlimited traffic included
- Adds highly available, scalable block storage capacity to a cloud server
- Block storage has redundancy by default and scales from 1 TB to 20 TB
Pricing: from €4,99 / month (pricing page)
Pick Tilaa if you want managed backups every 4 hours, aggregated into daily, weekly and monthly backups.(our assessment)
Checked against Tilaa's about page, homepage, pricing page and legal notice.
Looking for alternatives to a specific product?
Which should you choose?
- Pick Aruba Cloud if you want virtual machines, firewalls and networks managed via VMware Cloud Director.
- Pick Elastx if you want GPUs offered within both OpenStack IaaS and Kubernetes CaaS.
- Pick gridscale if you want to book resources on demand, billed per minute.
- Pick Hetzner Object Storage if you want a monthly base price that includes 1 TB storage and 1 TB egress.
- Pick Infomaniak Public Cloud if you want Heat templates with vertical and horizontal autoscaling.
- Pick Tilaa if you want managed backups every 4 hours, aggregated into daily, weekly and monthly backups.
Our assessment, based only on the checked statements above.
How we checked this
We checked 8 of the 12 alternatives on this page against each company's own website in September 2026. Every line in the grey panels comes from that company’s own site, and a second check tried to disprove it before we kept it. A dash in the table means we could not verify that detail. "Pick it if" lines are our own assessment, based only on those checked statements.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are there free European cloud infrastructure & object storage tools?
Yes. clever cloud Cellar is free or has a free plan, according to the pricing each company publishes. Free plans usually carry limits; each product page links to the company's terms.
