European Alternatives to DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider popular with developers, startups and small businesses for its simple interface, transparent pricing and straightforward compute, storage and managed database services. For teams that need developer-friendly cloud hosting with European data centers, competitive pricing and EU data sovereignty, several European providers offer a comparable experience.
Best European alternatives to DigitalOcean for developer-friendly cloud hosting and VPS
Hetzner, based in Germany, is widely recognized for its exceptional price-to-performance ratio on cloud servers and dedicated hardware, with data centers in Germany and Finland. Scaleway offers a modern developer experience with a broad range of compute, GPU, managed databases and serverless products from French data centers. OVHcloud provides a full cloud stack from bare metal to managed Kubernetes. UpCloud, from Finland, focuses on high-performance cloud servers. IONOS and Exoscale round out the options with reliable European cloud infrastructure.
Hetzner
German founder-owned hosting company with S3-compatible object storage, backup Storage Boxes, and aggressively priced cloud infrastructure.
Scaleway
French cloud provider (Iliad Group) with managed databases for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ClickHouse, and Kafka plus S3 storage.
OVHcloud
French publicly traded cloud provider with managed databases, S3-compatible storage, and 43 data centers across four continents.
UpCloud
Finnish cloud provider operating 15 data centers globally with a 99.999% SLA and zero-cost egress policy.
IONOS
German publicly traded cloud and hosting provider with managed databases, S3 storage, and 6.3 million customer contracts.
Exoscale
Swiss cloud platform (A1 Telekom Austria Group) with managed databases powered by Aiven across eight European data centers.
Clever Cloud
French PaaS provider automating application deployment on European sovereign infrastructure with per-second billing.
Aruba Cloud
Italian cloud provider with five owned data center campuses and over 130,000 managed servers serving 16 million users.
Gigas
Spanish publicly traded cloud provider operating nine data centers across Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Latin America.
